87% women likely to quit over sexual harassment, bias in hiring: Study

Mumbai: In the wake of various public allegations of misconduct a recent survey has revealed that 87 percent of women would be likely to leave their job if a gender-based scandal like sexual harassment, bias in hiring among others occurred at the company they work for.

Job site Indeed in a survey found that 82 percent of men were in agreement and said they would likely to leave their job in a similar scenario.

It also revealed that close to 80 percent of respondents said they would be likely to leave their job if a technology-based issue such as data breach, product failure, among others occurred at the company they work.

About 75 percent of respondents would leave their job if issues such as the CEO or senior leaders expressing political views or contributing to policies against their own political beliefs occurred at the company for they work for, it added.

Indeed conducted a survey of employees across various companies in the technology sector in the country.

It was conducted by Censuswide with 506 workers in the technology industry between December 27, 2018 and January 11, 2019.