Sarah Toy, MarketWatch, June 27, 2018

Companies act swiftly nowadays. Businesses are finding they must deal quickly and decisively with inappropriate behavior in the workplace in a way they never had to before. What once took months or years to address has been accelerated by the increasing influence of online consumer advocacy groups, the role of social media in people’s lives and the #MeToo movement.

“Companies are looking at a new set of best practices,” said Davia Temin, chief executive of Temin & Co., a New York-based reputation and crisis-management firm. “The old set would have been to close your eyes, ignore it and hope it goes away or that no one notices,” she said.

These new standards are causing some big changes at the top.

At least 416 executives and celebrities have been accused of sexual misconduct since December 2015, according to a data collected by Temin’s firm. The majority of Temin’s list consists of corporate executives, though it does include celebrities like Bill Cosby and Kevin Spacey. Over the past 18 months, 195 have resigned or have been fired and 118 have been suspended, placed on leave or are facing legal repercussions without permanent removal. […read more]

Danielle Brant, Folha de S.Paolo, June 27, 2018

The #MeToo movement (#EuTambem, in Brazil) generated 417 counts sexual harassment or misconduct against executives and employees of companies, a survey carried out by Temin and Company of New York. The data were collected from news published since December 2015, when the trial of Comedian Bill Cosby for accusations of sexual harassment began.

To be included in the database, the case had to appear at least seven times in the media.

“We wanted to know if the trigger for the charges had been Bill Cosby or, more recently, Harvey Weinstein”, says Davia Temin, president of Temin and Company. Weinstein is a film producer who, in October 2017, was accused of harassment and sexual abuse by celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cara Delevigne.

Temin identified the case of Weinstein as the main factor that led to the accusations against executives and employees. […read more]

Tim Baysinger, TheWrap, June 26, 2018

A New York-based crisis consulting firm says that the fall of Harvey Weinstein has inspired an 11-fold increase in accusations of sexual misconduct against high-profile people.

Per a database compiled by Temin and Co., since the Oct. 5, 2017 New York Times story detailing decades of misconduct by Weinstein, and an equally devastating New Yorker report just days later, 379 high-profile people have been accused, a staggering increase from the two years prior.

Temin and Co. looked into accusations starting from December 2015, when charges were brought against Bill Cosby for a 2004 sexual attack on former Temple University employee, Andrea Constand. The firm’s president and CEO Davia Temin told TheWrap that just 38 high-profile people were accused of sexual misconduct or other similar misdeeds from Dec. 2015 until the Weinstein accusations became public.

But after Weinstein came the #MeToo movement, and a wave of women coming forward to report abuse. “We can see it was not the Cosby issue,” Temin said. “It was absolutely Weinstein.” […read more]

Kristen Bellstrom, Fortune The Broadsheet, June 26, 2018

A new report finds that the #MeToo movement has so far ousted at least 417 high-profile people. Of that group, 193 were fired or left their jobs; another 122 have been put on leave, suspended or are facing investigations. And—notably—69 people have faced “no repercussions.” “The eagle eyes are out for this,” said Davia Temin, whose firm Temin and Co. did the research. “Women understand a little better their collective power, and they’re using it.” […read more]