One in four Poles has experienced mobbing

As many as 26 percent of respondents have experienced mobbing, according to a survey commissioned by the wPolityce.pl portal. 68 percent of respondents have not encountered the phenomenon, while 6 percent expressed no opinion. The survey on bullying was conducted by Social Changes.

"Mobbing is an action or behavior concerning an employee or directed against an employee, consisting of persistent and prolonged harassment or intimidation of an employee, causing an employee to have a low opinion of his or her professional usefulness, causing or aimed at humiliating or ridiculing an employee, isolating or eliminating him or her from the team of co-workers," the wPolityce.pl portal reported.

The issue of the threat of bullying has been increasingly featured in media discourse due to, among other things, the decline in unemployment and the concomitant rise in workplace expectations, but also the entry of a new generation into the labor market – a generation that shows less tolerance for bullying compared to older generations.

(PAP)