There are so many parts in this movie that display workplace harassment. First off, when the boss calls the women in the office "his girls," they aren't his girls. They are his employees. They way he looks at his assistant shows a strong influence of harassment in the workplace. He buys her gifts, asks her to turn around, looks down her shirt, touches her inappropriately, and just says things you should never ask a co-worker, whether female or male.
The assistant is mainly targeted because of rumors that spread around about her. The boss tells the other male workers how him and his assistant do sexual acts, and when rumors like that spread around, she'll either be shunned or avoided in the workplace. When she asked the new employee to go out for dinner or lunch, the new employee refused because she already knew about the rumors that spread around the office.
Working in a hostile environment can be seen as harassment. Roz was the eyes and ears for the boss. She recorded everything that happened in the bathrooms, where all the gossip happened. In the movie, ladies were talking about how much they got paid and one of them actually got fired. To work in a place that you can't simply talk about your pay checks to make sure that everyone is being paid fairly, that seems absolutely crazy to me. The 3 main ladies went into the bathroom to talk privately about what had happened after almost killing the boss, but Roz was sitting in the toilet the entire time listening on their private conversation. Of course this topic of listening in on something on what's right or wrong is a controversial topic on whether or not you should be able to listen in on something that could potentially hurt someone's life, but you shouldn't listen in on someone's private conversation.
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