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Enabling employees to report workplace s-xual harassment anonymously can alert employers to "hot spots" and high-risk situations that might otherwise go unnoticed, according to a new report that offers eight best-practice tips.

Today's Champions of Change Coalition report on workplace responses to sexual harassment notes that while formal investigations are sometimes appropriate, some employees who experience sexual harassment at work just want their organisation to know about the behaviour and for it to stop; and some won't report at all unless there's an anonymous option, for fear of retribution and negative consequences.

"Reporting an experience of sexual harassment ought not to be worse than the incident itself. But that is the reality for many people," says Champions of Change Coalition founder Elizabeth Broderick AO...