Calling "SAYANG" in workplace now counts as sexual harassment!
Calling your Malaysian colleague 'sayang' in the workplace now counts as sexual harassment. Raise your hand if you had ever felt uncomfortable with a sexual innuendo made by a colleague. Or if someone in your office keeps asking you out for dinner after you've said no several times. Or if your superior had shown a weird favoritism toward you simply because of your physical appearance, be it age, race, or gender. Unfortunately, workplace harassment is not a new thing. In just the past few years, several notable figures have been exposed as serial harassers in their fields. From French gaming company Ubisoft to American daytime television variety series The Ellen DeGeneres Show, various people have been accused of alleged harassment in the workplace. Even in Malaysia, former presenter Umapagan Ampikaipakan from local radio station BFM89.9 was dismissed after claims of ongoing sexual harassment allegations came to public knowledge. But some people may think that the dismissals...