The Hollywood Reporter: Last month, Anita Hill’s Hollywood Commission released the sobering findings from its most recent survey into workplace abuse: Most of the 5,000-plus respondents said that they were now better informed on how to identify misconduct, but they had little faith in employers’ and the industry’s ability to address the behavior.
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It’s definitely no secret that there’s a lot of problems and concerns with general workplace well-being in the entertainment industry. It’s certainly a good first step for an improvement in people’s ability to identify signs of workplace harassment and abuse, but it is also disheartening that so many people then were left not knowing how to report those issues. I find it interesting that it was shown that low-budget films had much more abuse found, but far fewer reports. It makes sense, as I imagine that a large film production hires people purely to be responsible for HR-type jobs and responsibilities. It’s definitely good that large organizations like IATSE are working together in order to provide support and structure for establishing a clear harassment and abuse report system. Having a mandatorily established resource for reporting issues like those hopefully would give employees, who are now relatively well-trained at identifying abuse, an outlet to report it. I hope to see another study and survey in the future, hopefully showing that this new system improves the harassment and abuse reporting system.
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