The lesson I take here is that any organization that employs people should have a legal/HR expert available and actually call them immediately when anything unusual happens.
You may think that you are in the business of telling people how to send money to charities, but as soon as you employ people, you are also in the business of solving all kinds of things that concern the people you employ. And you most likely don’t have any expertize in that, and things can get very serious, so you need to have someone’s phone number and to actually use it.
You need an HR expert to do HR things, for similar reasons you need a tax expert to do tax things. You can’t just take a random nerd, assign them the role, and hope that everything will turn out OK. The difference is that the tax things are more predictable, and less extreme; so the HR expert is actually more important than the tax expert.
The leadership of CEA should resign.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XxXnPoGQ2eKsQx3FE/cea-s-response-to-sexual-harassment
The lesson I take here is that any organization that employs people should have a legal/HR expert available and actually call them immediately when anything unusual happens.
You may think that you are in the business of telling people how to send money to charities, but as soon as you employ people, you are also in the business of solving all kinds of things that concern the people you employ. And you most likely don’t have any expertize in that, and things can get very serious, so you need to have someone’s phone number and to actually use it.
You need an HR expert to do HR things, for similar reasons you need a tax expert to do tax things. You can’t just take a random nerd, assign them the role, and hope that everything will turn out OK. The difference is that the tax things are more predictable, and less extreme; so the HR expert is actually more important than the tax expert.