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Acceptable

Gray Area

Unacceptable

Close-up of a handshake. An employee pushes away another employee who is attempting to kiss them. An employee is contemplating whether or not they've done the right thing.

High Standards of Conduct

Your commitment to consistently maintaining our high standards of conduct will help promote the respectful work environment we all want and deserve.

Workplace conduct can be put it into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and a gray area in between.

For example, appropriately shaking someone’s hand is clearly acceptable, while kissing a person who is not interested is clearly unacceptable.

Those two categories are straightforward and fairly easy to understand.

Where many problems often come from is the gray area, where people aren’t quite sure if they’re crossing a line.