I’ve watched these events both in the military world and commercial world. Typically, the HR guys want to just pay the person off real quick and dump them out the front door. Usually $40k does the job and you save a bit over having to pay lawyers to fight this stuff out in court.
In the military...they can’t pay anyone off....so you end up with some fix-it solution where the bad guy is sent off to some social rehab deal and gets some kind of paperwork in his file that indicates he shouldn’t supervise women.
In most cases, the woman who started the episode ends up with some paranoid feeling because half the office simply doesn’t believe her story.
You know what else is a hostile work environment? Going back to the office after you sleep with the boss and everyone knows it. Not saying that happened, but I’m sure walking around with everyone snickering behind you can’t be fun...