According to a Viking study, 60 percent of employees have already experienced targeted exclusion at work.
Bullying in the workplace is becoming more and more of a mass phenomenon. According to a new study of 1,000 German employees by the office equipment company Viking, more than 60 percent of the participants said they had experienced bullying. And almost one in four employees (24 percent) report having been a victim of bullying themselves.
Both genders bully
There is no significant difference between the genders when it comes to workplace bullying. According to the data, 25 percent of women and almost one in four men have been bullied. However, millennials are almost twice as likely to be bullied in the workplace as baby boomers over 55.
Particularly explosive: Around half of those surveyed believe that employees in their company would get away with bullying in the future - including their own superiors and CEOs, at the top at 30 percent. The study focused on the management level in German companies. The aim should be to determine how capable superiors are of recognizing bullying situations in the workplace and resolving them fairly.
Supervisors mostly incompetent
Almost one in four employees believe that their own bosses are unable to identify bullying in the workplace. Only one in six managers has a strong confidence in recognizing signs of bullying. Only 27 percent of managers were offered specific training on workplace bullying, the survey shows.
53 percent of HR managers believe that they could prevent bullying from even occurring at work. Results by age category: 30 percent of Millennials want bosses to pay more attention to the behavior of their employees, while 40 percent of Baby Boomers hope for further training opportunities in dealing with bullying.
Source: press release
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