When an employee makes you aware of a possible occurrence of sexual harassment, your obligation as the employer is to investigate and take appropriate action.<p>Tell the employee that your company isn&#x27;t one that believes this kind of behavior is acceptable, tell her you&#x27;re going to talk to a lawyer, tell her you need to investigate this, and that she isn&#x27;t causing trouble and you&#x27;re glad she brought this to your attention.<p>Get an HR professional, lawyer or not, and deal with this immediately.<p>Let me assure you, when she said she doesn&#x27;t want to cause trouble, she didn&#x27;t mean she wanted you to do nothing.  It means she wants you to do something, and she doesn&#x27;t want to be blamed, she doesn&#x27;t want the office to talk about it, and she wants you to own it.<p>If you do nothing, one day, if she (or someone else) ever decides to file a lawsuit for sexual harassment and fostering a hostile work environment against your company, you saying &quot;but she told me she didn&#x27;t want to cause any trouble&quot; is not an excuse to sit idly by.