Companies define workplace social media harassment as online conduct that targets coworkers and creates a hostile or intimidating work environment. Harassment can include posts, images, messages, or comments that are offensive, threatening, or humiliating. If online behavior affects the workplace, it may fall under company harassment or conduct policies.

Report the incident through HR, your ethics hotline, or your company’s reporting channels; timely reporting helps protect employees and supports a respectful work environment.

Yes. If it involves coworkers, affects the workplace, or violates company policies, it may fall under harassment or code-of-conduct enforcement.

You should report it to HR or use your company's compliance hotline. Leadership has a responsibility to create and support an environment where individuals feel safe and respected.

Yes. Taking inappropriate or surreptitious photos of colleagues in the workplace is an invasion of privacy and a breach of workplace conduct standards.

If the photo features a coworker and was taken in the workplace, it violates the Code of Conduct. Personal social media use is subject to company policy if it impacts the work environment or colleagues.

Yes. Harassment is defined by the impact on the victim and the work environment, not the intent of the person engaging in the behavior. Humor is never a defense for behavior that compromises a coworker's dignity.