October 26, 2017
Gender, race, age and sex bias still pervades UK working life
One in four (27 percent) women have been victims of sexism in the workplace and ageism, racism and homophobia continue to mar the working lives of minority groups claims new research. With high-profile reports of sexual harassment and assault in the entertainment industry dominating headlines, the Office Culture report, from Opinium Research, examined gender, race, age and sex biases that pervade modern UK working life and found that over 2.5 million women (20 percent) report being a victim of sexual harassment in the workplace, yet two thirds (67 percent) of women who have experienced this have not reported it to their company. Similarly, despite a perceived cultural improvement in race relations, only half (55 percent) of those subjected to racial discrimination have reported such incidents to somebody in their company. However, ageism is the least reported of all with almost three-quarters (72 percent) of incidents going unnoticed; of those that did report ageism, a quarter (25 percent) of cases were not acknowledged. Action taken on incidents of homophobia were also low; with over a third (43 percent) of cases not being dealt with after the acknowledgement.
October 20, 2017
Seven workplace stories we think you should read this week (apart from ours)
by Mark Eltringham • Comment, Facilities management, Technology, Workplace design
The backlash to being a thought leader
Automation and Artificial Intelligence bullshit
Science in the gig economy
The seven deadly sins of AI predictions
The flight of people back to the suburbs
The changing psychology of the workplace
The rock and roll workplace