Ending workplace harassment with Blockchain technology? It’s now possible.

Back in October 2017, Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey, two NY Times reporters, and Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker exposed the Harvey Weinstein story which led to the creation of #MeToo. What started with a media campaign to expose the magnitude of the problem turned out to be history’s most successful social media movement, then a topic which occupied the minds of world leaders. And as industry by industry got contaminated by the emergence of terrible stories, workplace harassment has become a serious problem for Corporate America (and for organizations everywhere).

The response to this crisis by business leadership was self-involved to an incredible degree. It was all about “zero tolerance” messaging toward harassment and “more women in leadership roles”. Don’t get me wrong here: zero tolerance messaging and diversity at the top are of course crucial factors in the effort to render the workplace harassment-free. But what’s mind boggling, is how marginal was the thinking about the employees themselves, and what really needs to change in order for them come forward and expose wrongdoings.

A new way of thinking about harassment reporting.

We started Vault with three premises: Firstly, that the majority of people who are subject to harassment will not report it to their employer. Something about the DNA of internal corporate reporting systems just doesn’t cut it for people, and that would not change until we hand them real tools which can…