In sexual coercion, promotion and favorable job benefits will follow if an employee takes the advantage and consented to sex. On the contrary, if the employee rejects, the job benefits are denied. The second type of harassment - sexual annoyance is also known as hostile environment sexual harassment. Sexual annoyance is a demeaning and unwelcome sexually related behavior that is offensive, hostile or intimidating to the victim, but has no direct connection to any job benefits. However, the annoying behavior creates an offensive working environment which affects the victim's ability to continue working.
Sexual annoyance includes sexual harassment by an employee against a co-employee.
Similarly, sexual harassment by a company's customer against an employee also falls into this category. Nevertheless, the definition of subjective words like unwelcome, offensive and annoying still leaves for individual interpretation by courts.