what are examples of a hostile work environment?

Answer 1

A hostile work environment exists when an employee experiences workplace harassment and fears going to work because of the offensive, intimidating, or oppressive atmosphere generated by the harasser.

Hostile work environment is also one of the two legal categories of sexual harassment. So any activity classifying as sexual harassment...such as repeated unwanted emails or sexual related jokes...would be a good example of hostile work environment.

The other example I have is of two people working together. Lets say they were in a relationship that went bad, or maybe they were once roommates but no longer get along, and either one or both parties are unable to let things go and work in a professional manner. That creates a hostile environment for the parties involved and the people working around them caught in the cross fires.

Answer 2

When your work makes you ill, causes stress or is not beneficial to expansion of... diversity of species, we may very well call hostile work environment. Mai be every work environment causing discomfort must be considered hostile...

Not only people are subject to such conditions.....

Computers serve us, they can serve much more efficient, when people would understand that they cannot go on sending their criminal acts across the net indefinitely. To a computer capable of intense art, have to suffer child porn, snuff movies, war scenes, politic ans and other lie rs stash their mind chilling incriminating evidence on other peoples turf.
Conglomerate Providers of media in broad sense, ignore their collective complicity to the beastly criminal behavior. Nations people as lawmakers Professional people as workers and Private Peoples as workers and lawmakers acting out, that which they condemn most...
Computer malfunction, in many cases vandalism by the programmer, abusing AI by adverse, contradicting programming, may well be the biggest crime against life which effect, a collapsing Internet not unimaginable

Answer 3

On my job an employee just received a promotion. She is now a supervisor. Now she comes in my office stands behind me looking on my computer. She doesn't say anything to me. Just stands there then walks out. It makes me feel nervous. Is this a form of hostile environment?

Answer 4

Where I used to work, I'll just call it TGI Not-my-job-anymore in Centerville, OH., on my 3rd day of training the GM came up to me and told me he didn't like my long hair, that it looked dirty and greasy.Even though it was still wet from where I had just washed it before coming to work. It was his way of letting me know he didn't want me there, which turned out to be a mutal thing. After seeing what the cooks did with the food I didn't want to work there...I can't work at a place where I would be afraid to eat the food, and this is the fourth rest. of this particular chain that I've worked at, all with the same unsanitary conditions. Funny commercials, though.

Answer 5

My boss is on a macrobiotic diet. The food he eats, 4-6 times a day and usually spills most of it on his desk, smells like animal urine and feses, looks like seaweed and cow dung. Then asks me to hold onto his pants so he doesn't fall out the second floor window while changing a spot light. He also disallows extraneous conversation and music in the office so that my assistant and I aren't distracted from working.

Answer 6

Subjective HWE would be anything that an individual FEELS to be threatening (sexism in the workplace, racism in the work place)

Objective HWE would be REAL dangers (primarily physically dangerous work) a person experiences (police/firefighters, military, oil rig workers)

Answer 7

Hostile environments can be anything from: Racial comments, taunting, work sabotages. Hope this helps.

Answer 8

Being disrespected at work. Sexual harrassment. Being bullied. Physical attacks.

These can be from co-workers, bosses, even customers.

The boss/owner is responsible to make sure your enviroment is safe.

Answer 9

For me it is pretty stressful, that the owner of the business I work for is sitting and standing like a dick around us all day doing nothing apart from watching us.

Answer 10

A type-A boss who acts as though his/her employees were slaves, at his/her beck and call, vs. company employees, with rights and responsibilities to the company, not to an individual.