Abhishek Banerjee is currently enjoying the success of Stree 2. Besides acting, he's been working as a casting director for 15 years and co-owns a casting agency in Mumbai called Casting Bay. ADVERTISEMENT Stree 2 actor Abhishek Banerjee on workplace harassment In an interview with NDTV, Abhishek shared that his company has strict rules to create a safe workplace for women.
He mentioned that meetings outside the office are not allowed, and no one is allowed to text female colleagues after a certain time. He also admitted to firing employees who broke this rule. Abhishek Banerjee stated, “The first thing we did was that we decided on a rule that we will not do any meetings or none of our employees are allowed to do any meetings outside our office.
Because the problem which was really deep-seated was that there was a lot of coffee shop-meeting culture in Bombay. ‘Let's meet at this coffee shop, meet at this restaurant'. We wanted to say ‘No, that's not professional.
We are not going to work in a coffee shop. You are not meeting to eat food or have coffee. You are meeting for work.
So let's keep it professional. You come to our office, whoever wants to meet, we will give you time. You come, speak to us, and then you go'.
” Explaining more about the strict rule on messaging women, Abhishek Banerjee added, “None of our employees are allowed to message female actors after a certain point. If you do that, strict actions will be taken which we have. We have fired employees w.