The phrase "a difficult workplace and" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a challenging work environment, often as part of a larger sentence.
Example: "Many employees struggle to maintain their mental health in a difficult workplace and often seek support from colleagues."
Alternatives: "a challenging work environment" or "a tough workplace".
But these women, and many more in the tech sector, believe firms – and women themselves – can take steps to turn a potentially difficult workplace around.
Correction: September 23 , 2001 Sunday Because of an editing error, the Five Questions column last Sunday, an interview with Dr. Kerry J. Sulkowicz, a psychiatrist who advises companies on difficult workplace transitions, omitted a phrase in his comment about employers' handling of worker anxiety after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
Women are leaving engineering due to difficult workplace conditions... To find out how gendered these concerns are, the findings would have to be compared to qualitative data on the retention of male engineers, which Fouad and Singh are in the process of gathering.
Here's a quick reminder of what our critic Sam Wollaston thought last time: "Prey might not have the layered complexity of Line of Duty … Nor does it ring quite as true as an examination of procedure at a difficult, all-consuming workplace.
It is well-known that maintaining high participation is a difficult process in workplace interventions [ 16].
However, collecting a fasting blood sample proved difficult in the workplace, and only seven blood samples were fasting (5.7 % of blood samples collected where fasting status was recorded).
A worker may also not want to raise a workplace issue for fear of losing a job or creating a difficult situation at the workplace.
BUT in a world awash in cellphones and e-mail, it can be difficult to unplug from the workplace and receive a sabbatical's intended benefit.
Scheduling shifts in the workplace has always been a difficult, rigid process.
