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A Company Learns That ‘Just Joking’ Is No Defense Against Sexual Harassment

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In addition to being an HR professional with 25-plus years of HR experience, I’m an improv comedian who performs at corporate events. While our improv ensemble likes to keep things clean in general, we know that if we are on a corporate stage, the humor tolerance is muc

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lower. Not everyone you hire to entertain your employees understands the difference between comedy at a bar on Friday night and comedy in the company ca

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eteria. Courtney Coffman, the CFO of Grand View Hospital, attended a company retreat where a comedian told jokes that Coffman found to be racist and sexist. So she,

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