Nearly a quarter (22%) of employees who witness harassment never report it. But among those who do, 38% say they were dissatisfied with their employer’s response. The data highlights a trust gap that shapes whether employees speak up at all.
Those numbers come from Traliant’s The State of Workplace Harassment: 2026 Findings, which examines reporting workplace harassment and employee confidence in how employers respond when concerns are raised.
Nearly half (46%) of Gen Z employees say they’ve witnessed workplace harassment – and 33% report experiencing it firsthand. Those rates exceed every other generation in the survey, suggesting that problematic behavior is showing up early in employees’ careers rather than fading with time.
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Industry differences are sharper still. In customer-facing environments such as hotels, restaurants, and bars, 50% of employees report witnessing harassment and 29% say they have experienced it themselves. In office-based roles, those figures fall to 32% and 17%.
Public-facing work brings familiar risk factors: less control over interactions, fewer managers present, and a higher likelihood that harassment comes from customers rather than co-workers. The reality is, reporting systems designed around office-based work don’t...
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