Image shows a white male in a black hoodie, who looks unhappy A recent article found that 80% of British workers report experiencing violence or abuse in the workplace. Eighty. Percent. Eight out of ten people are made to feel some level of non-task-related concern for their personal safety when they think about showing up for work. I wonder if that might have any connection with the "endemic state" of "people claiming they're too mentally unwell to work" that the UK government keeps throwing shade about? Might the "failure to cope with normal human experience" that snide, comfortably-financed, well-protected MPs snarl about and threaten to reduce people to absolute poverty for "not just getting over" actually be a much more understandable cognitive block around putting oneself in a situation where you are at risk when you did not expect that kind of risk? Employers nope out on dealing with workplace aggression, whether from colleagues or...
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