Bullying | 'Abusive' Head of HR destroyed employee's confidence

According to research from TUC, almost a third of employees have been bullied at work. The poll, which was carried out by YouGov for TUC, found that 72% of bullying cases are carried out by line managers. The study also flagged women as the more likely gender (34%) to be the victims of bullying.

Whilst bullying should surely be anathema to HR, reporting by one alleged victim of repeated workplace bullying should have earnest practitioners shuddering as the perpetrator was apprently the Head of HR.

The self-reported victim wrote on Campaign Live* that within a matter of months, they had been reduced to midnight panic attacks, followed by exhausting 14-hour workdays one after another, and ‘bottles of wine to help wash away the anxiety’. However, it took them far longer than a couple of months to notice that the boss was actually a bully.

“I was not your obvious victim. I was confident and experienced when I started at my old company, but that is precisely what made me a target."