“If you, as a manager, have to say to your young staff, ‘gosh, you know, just watch out, leave early, because [attendees] get so drunk that you might have unwarranted and unwanted advances’ – I mean, it’s the counsel of despair,” Braun said. “[What should ideally happen is] a conversation up the line that goes, ‘we don’t like this environment, or we think it’s against our duty of care to our staff to put them in a position where they might be propositioned, or whatever else’, and then there should be a conversation with the organisers of the conference.”
