Protecting myself and my business - camera question

What sparked this inquiry?

I'm about to be changing offices and jobs where leaving my door open all the time is not an option.

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Protecting myself and my business

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I'm about to be changing offices and jobs

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Which is it? Do you have a business or a job? You've raised an odd question. If your style leads to these possibilities then you need to take a hard look at yourself.

Just “”don’t stare at her tits” or “change your style” way over simplifies this issue. Harassment allegations don’t have to be valid to ruin you now. I understand the OP’s concern. I don’t think you have to run a camera in your private office 24/7 though. If you have a camera in the hallway or entry to the office you don’t have to tell people it’s filming because they have no expectation of privacy in a public hallway. If someone alleges an assault that is good evidence that they did not act like they had been assaulted leaving your office. I don’t think there is any real protection for the common allegations today like “I felt uncomfortable” when nothing likely actually happened. You also basically can’t be friends with any female coworkers if you want to protect yourself from allegations so no texts and only basic boring emails.

also, don’t hire Maggie gyllenhall

You might want to run it by a supervisor before installing cameras. Some places don't let you hammer shite into the walls. You probably would want to run it by HR as well. They will likely want to ask you a bunch of questions about your motivations.

This simpleton understands that the way I conduct myself in all phases of business puts me in a positive light and would raise grave doubts over anyone that tried to pull what you're worried about.

This simpleton also owns the company and would be much more at risk than you could ever be as an employee. IOW, get off your fricking high horse. You aren't that special.

ETA: The way you conduct yourself outside of the office goes a long way to protect yourself inside closed doors.

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Harassment allegations don’t have to be valid to ruin you now.

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This is the truth. I worked at a place several years ago at which a guy got fired over allegations of sexual harassment. There were multiple witnesses around the building at any time and these two were never alone.

Long story short, some low IQ workers didn't like the operations manager because he actually held them accountable for their subpar work (and work ethic) and strong armed a woman to claim harassment. I even sat down with the President and VP and went on record. Didn't matter, he was fired.

A couple months later the woman admitted she made it up and confessed to the plot. No punishment, no write up, no notes in her employee file.

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Was the employee that was fired told about that?

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He knew but I'm not sure why he didn't decide to pursue it. She didn't officially go on record about it and then I left so I don't really know what happened after that point.