Bystander Intervention Training Comes to Corporate America | DRM, Inc.

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This means employers need to familiarize themselves with Bystander Intervention training so they can ensure they are not only shielding themselves from liability and meeting all legally mandated provisions, but also educating their employees on their role in not only reporting harassment, but also stopping it. In addition, most of us have not grown up in communities where people are constantly confronted on sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist, and/or misogynistic language and behavior. Bystander Intervention in the workplace relies on employees going that extra mile to see if another person (even a total stranger) needs help. Investigation into the report by the New York Times has since shown it was closer to a dozen of Genovese’s neighbors (not 38) that heard the attack and failed to intervene. Albert Einstein once said, “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” I agree that the idea behind Bystander Intervention training is benevolent, but it will require a great deal of social change.

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