Before COVID-19 hit – yes, HR Grapevine does know that feels like an entire lifetime ago – the most common people issues that might have existed were likely to do with workplace misconduct, performance, misuse of email or bullying and harassment.
In fact, mid-2010s research from XpertHR showed that occasional misconduct made up 93% of workplace disciplinaries, with misuse of office email being something that up to six in ten employers faced and over half of businesses having to deal with bullying claims.
