“More than one in five workers (22.8% or 743 million people) have experienced some form of workplace violence or harassment during their working career”
More than one in five people have experienced some form of workplace violence or harassment around the world, and almost half of victims did not report it, according to a survey released today by the International Labor Organization (ILO).
“Violence and harassment at work is very common around the world,” sums up this survey jointly conducted by the ILO, Lloyd’s Register Foundation and the Gallup polling company. It is the first attempt to examine this phenomenon on a global scale.
“More than one in five workers (22.8% or 743 million people) have experienced at least one form of violence or harassment at work during their working career,” based on data collected last year. Almost a third (31.8%) of victims said they had experienced more than one form of violence or harassment, and 6.3% had experienced three (physical, psychological and sexual).
But what impressed Manuela Tomei, the ILO’s deputy director-general of Governance, rights and dialogue, is that less than 55% spoke about their plight. This finding “may reflect the fact that in many cases we are not dealing with a taboo subject but that victims feel shame and guilt because they may believe that they have somehow lost the respect of others because of their behavior,” he explained to press conference he gave.
This survey was conducted mainly by telephone in a sample of 75,000 workers from 121 countries. The discussions were conducted in a way to cover the different understandings that exist in the world of what constitutes violence or harassment.
In China, where it was necessary to obtain permission from the authorities, some questions were not asked at all. In other countries, authorities have asked questions to be “tailored” to local cultural sensitivities, a Gallup official explained.
Psychological violence is the most common form and affects 17.9% of men and women – that is 583 million people – during their working life. This is followed by physical violence, which 8.% (277 million people) have suffered.
Research shows that men are more likely to report this type of behavior than women.
About one in 15 workers (6.3% or 205 million people) experience sexual violence and harassment, and unsurprisingly, most victims are women. Of the three forms of violence examined, in this the gender difference is most evident: more than 8% of women experience it, compared to 5% of men.
“Young women are twice as likely to experience sexual violence or harassment, compared to young men,” and “immigrant women are twice as likely as native women to be victims,” ​​the report says.
Women are also more likely to experience psychological violence while men are more likely to be victims of physical violence. “Youth, immigrants and wage earners” are more likely to experience physical or psychological violence.
Moreover, “people who at some point in their lives have been discriminated against because of their gender, disability, nationality, skin color or religion” are also more likely to face some form of violence in the workplace as well.
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