A new report from the UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has found LGBTQ+ employees are more likely to feel unsafe and experience harassment in the workplace compared to their straight, cisgender counterparts.
The study was conducted as part of CIPD’s Inclusion at Work: Perspectives on LGBT+ Working Lives report. After interviewing over 15,000 UK workers, it found 40% of all LGBTQ+ employees had experienced workplace conflict in the past 12 months compared to 10% of non LGBTQ+ people.A further 55% of trans people reported experiencing workplace conflict over the course of the past year.