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Atlantic Information Systems has an explicit policy of "no sexual touching" between employees. Helen, a member of John's staff, has received poor performance reviews, but nonetheless, she believes she should be promoted. She files a letter of complaint with the human resources department, alleging that John embraced his secretary Emily on company property. The department begins an investigation by interviewing people in the company. It asks them for complete confidentiality, but leaks occur, and word of the inquiry spreads, hurting the reputations of both John and Emily and making it difficult for them to carry out their jobs. Their department is at a standstill with bitterness and acrimony on all sides. Helen complains that other employees are siding with John and Emily and that she is being ostracized. Emily's story is that she received a phone call about her niece's death in an automobile accident and that John was only comforting her.

Identify a course of action that you would take if you were the manager of Atlantic Information Systems, following the "weight-of-reasons" framework. In your post, justify your course of action by discussing whether it is slow thinking (i.e., you reasoned your way to your conclusion) or if you began with an intuition that you later justified or rationalized (i.e., fast-thinking).