Numerous studies have found workplace stress levels to be higher for women – up to 67% higher for women between 34 and 44, as last year's study by the Health and Safety Executive found.
A 2014 MIT study found workplace diversity can help companies work more efficiently and hence drive bottom line performance.
Our study also found workplace SHS exposure to have the strongest effect on respiratory symptoms, as compared to home exposure or recreational exposure.
Start-up funding of £178,000 had been promised by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), a government quango, under a £1m programme to find "workplace solutions to the gender pay and opportunity pay gap".
To our relief, we generally find workplace porn almost non-existent these days when we go to the garage to get the car serviced, but a new Fawcett Society report, Corporate Sexism: The Sex Industry's Infiltration of the Modern Workplace, has found that the problem is, in fact, not only thriving but expanding at an alarming rate.
The idea is that everyone, from executive to barista to warehouse assistant, will find Workplace easy to use because, well, it looks and feels a lot like the hugely popular Facebook.
But instead of being bratty, our embrace of change means we're setting ourselves up so we can earn more, grow our skills, and find workplaces we don't dread going to.
Ambius, an interior design company, reported in 2009 that 62% of US workers said they would be more motivated if their employers made an effort to improve workplace surroundings, and 25% found their workplace to be "gloomy or depressing".
Steenstra et al. [ 18] found that workplace interventions alone reduced sick-listing, while graded activity alone or in combination with workplace interventions did not.
The researchers found that workplace aggression had severe consequences on employee well-being.
What, in fact, would or could you do if you found your workplace culture was steeped in sexism?
