The 2008 TUC safety representatives’ survey found that 40% of safety representatives identified bullying as a problem in their workplace that was linked to stress. The survey also found that bullying was perceived as a growing hazard, and that bullying gets worse as the workplace gets bigger.
A survey carried out in 2006 by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) in association with MORI and Kingston Business School also found that workplace bullying is widespread. It identified that one fifth of all UK employees had experienced some form of bullying or harassment over the prior 2 years.
In 2009 a Unison survey found that one in three young women say they are being bullied at work.
The Andrea Adams Trust says more than 2 million people are bullied at work, with 18.9 million working days lost.
