That is not the consensus.  The consensus in the grown-up business world is to <i>protect the company</i>.  Protect the company from the sexual harassment suit, and protect the company from the wrongful termination suit.<p>As such, no one will ever fire for cause on the basis of one incident report on a single interaction that occurred away from the workplace.  But you can be certain that everyone in the building gets additional harassment training, and management&#x2F;HR keeps a closer eye on <i>all</i> employees involved: complainants, suspects, and their direct supervisors.<p>The company then accumulates sufficient pretext on all the involved employees to justify termination of &quot;at will&quot; employment for any one of them, and then waits to see if anyone will end up costing the company money before pulling the trigger.<p>That is the consensus.  It is not <i>fair</i>.  It just <i>saves money</i>.  As such, I would caution against looking to the consensus when deliberating on the morality or ethics.