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General observations from experience:

A well-run company will have proper procedures, processes in place to deal with work place issues.

Management and all staff will also be required to take training on a continuous basis.

Professionally managed organizations don't walk around "believing" this or that or spouting off "innocent until proven guilty" and such

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>Management and all staff will also be required to take training on a continuous basis.

This is miserable. Unless the definition of sexual harassment changes every 6 months, you should not be forcing employees to retake these training sessions.

Often they are a means of having something to which they can point and say "we were doing our very best to create a safe environment". It's more of "ammo in case of lawsuit" than actual useful training. It may also be to just follow regulations in some places where they ought to have at least X hours/minutes of training on compliance related matters per year/month etc.

People (hopefully) won't get practice on reporting and handling harassment claims. It's good to have a refresher training to both remind employees of the process as well as a gesture to show they are still taking the issue seriously.

We are required to take ethics training like this yearly. Simply doubling that frequency may be justified due to Uber's history.

Is that a passive (maybe it's not passive) aggressive smiley face? In a paragraph talking about what it means to be professional?

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