Treating the Bullies At Work

Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, contributor for strategy+business, says that trying to get a sense of the prevalence of bullying in the workplace—the adult version of the playground—is difficult.

But researchers agree that bullying is an understudied and widespread problem; the data we do have seems to show that bullying, in the US at least, is on the rise: according to a January 2021 survey by the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI), 30% of US workers reported being bullied, up from 19% in 2017.

Read on to learn how the pandemic has encouraged some bad behaviors that leaders need to look out for in the new hybrid world of work.