Asos brings in lawyers to tackle sex harassment claims
The TelegraphAsos, the online fashion giant, has appointed an external law firm to investigate allegations of sexual harassment. While the claims about the fashion company were anonymous, an investigation by The Telegraph has learned that several women and men working for the firm have complained in recent years about inappropriate behaviour in both the firm’s head office and customer service centre. On Thursday night, a spokesman for Asos said that they took concerns raised by any of the company’s 3,000 staff “extremely seriously” and that “while no business is insusceptible to individual bad behaviour, we expect all of our people to behave responsibly and respectfully at all times”. Some women told The Telegraph that a senior man within the company made them feel uncomfortable by allegedly winking or staring at employees, or “loitering” around in the company’s London headquarters in the evenings. Zehra Hussain, who worked at the company for three years until May 2020, also said that the man at the centre of this claim behaved in a “sleazy” manner, which made her feel uncomfortable.