A Foxtons branch in London’s Mayfair.
Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/BloombergFoxtons Staff Faced Groping and Slurs at London Property Broker
Foxtons is often seen as an entry point for aspiring real estate agents. Junior employees described unwanted touching, drunk-driving — and senior staff who either ignored inappropriate behavior or were complicit.
In her two years at Foxtons Group Plc, one of London’s biggest estate agencies, Lucy said her managers and co-workers groped her, sent her explicit messages, discussed her weight in work WhatsApp chats and told her to start an account on OnlyFans, a streaming service used by sex workers. Her story is not unique.
When she confided in a manager, she told Bloomberg News, he said she needed thicker skin. “Everyone goes through that,” she recalled a female colleague saying. She ended up in hospital with work-related stress, her medical records show.