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Is your workplace akin to a frat house or locker room more often than a place of serious business?
More than a third of us, 34 percent, have heard sexually inappropriate remarks at work, according to a survey of workers.
But those who talk apparently are cautious about whom they're addressing: Racial slurs also linger - 28 percent of whites said they'd heard one at work, more than three times the percentage reported by black employees. Almost a quarter of workers also said they'd heard age-related ridicule at work, but only 13 percent of workers over age 54 said they'd heard such comments.
The largest decline in reported ridicule or verbal abuse came in the area of sexual orientation, with 20.2 percent saying they had heard such comments, down from 24.4 percent in the previous survey a year ago.
"It seems that sexual comments are still thought less objectionable than, say, ethnic or race-related insults," said Mike Hyter, president and CEO of Novations/J. Howard & Associates, a Boston-based consulting and training firm.
The results are from telephone interviews with 632 employed adults.
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