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Unlearning Silence in the Workplace: How to Speak Up at Work

Success

A 2020 survey found that 17.5% of employees surveyed don’t speak up at all at work when it comes to difficult topics. Speaking up can be more challenging for women due to historical gender norms that discourage assertiveness,” Bevins says. What have we experienced as the costs of speaking up in the past?

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We need better evidence to help protect people at work

Workplace Insight

Few would argue against the assertion that the quality of decisions is enhanced by accurate and relevant information, including evidence of which approaches to the task in hand actually work. This is especially so when our decisions involve how to protect people at work so can be literally a matter of life or death.

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