At Laine's company, several employees tell sexually oriented jokes and hang suggestive posters in the break room. She and some other employees have complained to the supervisor that these actions are crude and offensive. The situation could be _____ sexual harassment.
A) quid pro quo
B) hostile environment
C) Both of the above
D) Neither of the above

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The described situation is an example of a hostile environment, where the behavior creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment. Quid pro quo sexual harassment involves unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature where submission to or rejection of such conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment.

At Laine's Company, Several Employees Tell Sexually Oriented Jokes and Hang