Workplace Misconduct Reports Rose in 2025 for the First Time Since #MeToo, New Data Shows |
Workplace Misconduct Reports Rose in 2025 for the First Time Since #MeToo, New Data Shows
Study data reveals abusive behavior increased to a seven-year high, but so did employee confidence and willingness to report misconduct.
BY BRUCE CRUMLEY @BRUCEC_INC
Effective employer and worker response to the #MeToo movement resulted in considerable declines in workplace misconduct reports—dropping 15 percent over a five-year span. Yet while new data reflecting a renewed surge of complaints in 2025 indicates abusers feel safer behaving unacceptably again, it also suggests workers are increasingly confident that they’ll receive justice if they denounce that rising harassment.The top finding of a recent survey of 2,043 U.S. employees was that reports of workplace abuse leapt by 14 percent in 2025 compared to the previous year. That not only ended a half decade of continually declining complaints, but also reached the highest level in the past seven years. All........