Taking a Stand on Personal Safety and Other Actions for Allies
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Taking a Stand on Personal Safety, and Other Actions for AlliesEach week, we share five simple actions to create a more inclusive workplace and be a better ally.Photo of a doorstop by David Wall via Flickr, CC BY 2.01. Realize personal safety is a concern, even in professional settingsThis week, the Des Moines Register reported on lawsuit by a businesswoman who was raped in her Embassy Suites hotel room. The front desk had given the attacker a key to her room without asking for proof that he was a guest. Then, upon realizing the victim had engaged the safety latch on the door, the attacker got a hotel staff member to disable it. All it took was a simple story about how his girlfriend had locked him out of their room after having a fight.When Chad Loder, CEO of Habitu8, tweeted about the (...)