'Concerning' | LGBT+ staff experience increased levels of conflict at work

With this February marking LGBT+ History Month, CIPD has released a new report on the quality of LGBT+ working lives.

Dubbed Inclusion at work: Perspectives on LGBT+ working lives, it highlights how LGBT+ workers tend to face and have a more negative experience of work.

It found that over 40% of LGB+ workers experienced a conflict at work over a 12-month period, compared with 29% of heterosexual workers. These conflict incidents included being undermined, humiliated or discriminatory behaviour aimed at a protected characteristic.

In addition, more than half of trans workers stated that they experienced conflict over a 12-month period, with at least 50% of these currently unresolved. 12% of trans workers surveyed said that they experienced unwanted sexual attention at work, while two per cent have experienced sexual assault.