--- title: Harassment Is Still Prevalent in the American Workplace description: Harassment is still a major problem in American workplaces, according to a new report canonical: https://time.com/4375389/workplace-harassment-eeoc-discrimination/ author: Rosalie Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-20T20:00:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:46.062Z og:title: Harassment Is Still Prevalent in the American Workplace, Report Says og:description: One-third of discrimination charges included workplace harassment og:url: https://time.com/4375389/workplace-harassment-eeoc-discrimination/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2ec91a3ddbf9889/698898acab6d77cc1d6aa24f/office-harassment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Silhouette of businessman standing in office og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Harassment Is Still Prevalent in the American Workplace, Report Says twitter:description: One-third of discrimination charges included workplace harassment twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2ec91a3ddbf9889/698898acab6d77cc1d6aa24f/office-harassment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Harassment Is Still Prevalent in the American Workplace, Report Says > Sponsored content. 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The report released Monday shows that [one-third of discrimination charges](https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/task%5Fforce/harassment/report%5Fsummary.cfm) received by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) last fiscal year included workplace harassment, [_Slate_ reports](http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/06/20/harassment%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fworkplace%5Feeoc%5Fshows%5Fit%5Fremains%5Fa%5Fproblem.html). This includes sexual, racial and ethnic harassment. Up to 60 percent of respondents experienced harassment at the workplace based on their race or ethnicity, while up to 58 percent of [LGBT](http://time.com/3962469/lgbt-discrimination-eeoc/?iid=sr-link1) respondents have heard derogatory comments about sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace, and 41 percent reported being verbally and/or physically abused at work or having work spaces vandalized. Half of [transgender](http://swampland.time.com/2013/09/16/transgender-community-steps-closer-to-employment-equality/?iid=sr-link4) respondents reported workplace harassment, including 7 percent who were physically assaulted. [Harassment](http://time.com/3478041/restaurant-sexual-harassment-survey/?iid=sr-link8) often goes unreported, according to the report. About three out of four people who have experienced workplace harassment have never talked to a supervisor, manager or union representative about it. “Harassment in the workplace will not stop on its own — it’s on all of us to be part of the fight to stop workplace harassment,” the report says. “We cannot be complacent bystanders and expect our workplace cultures to change themselves.” \[[_Slate_](http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/06/20/harassment%5Fin%5Fthe%5Fworkplace%5Feeoc%5Fshows%5Fit%5Fremains%5Fa%5Fproblem.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4375389/workplace-harassment-eeoc-discrimination/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4375389/workplace-harassment-eeoc-discrimination/"},"headline":"Harassment Is Still Prevalent in the American Workplace, Report Says","datePublished":"2016-06-20T20:00:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:46.062Z","description":"One-third of discrimination charges included workplace harassment","url":"https://time.com/4375389/workplace-harassment-eeoc-discrimination/","keywords":["motto","Race","LGBT","Civil Rights","Workplace"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2ec91a3ddbf9889/698898acab6d77cc1d6aa24f/office-harassment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rosalie Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rosalie-chan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc2ec91a3ddbf9889/698898acab6d77cc1d6aa24f/office-harassment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Silhouette of businessman standing in office","caption":"Silhouette of businessman standing in office","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4375389/workplace-harassment-eeoc-discrimination/","name":"Harassment Is Still Prevalent in the American Workplace, Report Says"}}]}] ```