Parven

The shouting manager is easy to spot. The same behaviour delivered through a team chat is far harder to see, and it follows people home.

Harassment at work used to happen in a corridor, in front of witnesses. It now happens in a group chat nobody administers, in an image made by an app, and through a camera worn on somebody’s face.

Childcare, flexible hours and better leave solve time and money. They do nothing about the load a parent carries home in their head, and most of that load now comes off a screen.

One incident is enough to act on. Yet almost nobody reports it, because she expects a manager to tell her she is overreacting. Here is what it costs your staff, and what a manager should say.

Cyberflashing is someone sending an explicit picture to a person who never asked for it. It happens on the commute, in the office, and to children, and almost no employer has ever mentioned it.

Most wellbeing activities for staff are chosen because they are easy to book, not because anyone needed them. Here is what changes when a session answers a question people are already losing sleep over.