Worst is it for women, shows a new survey by Brilliant Future, which is presented in DN. Every sixth female employee states that they do not dare to express their opinion at work.
The industry that seems to have the lowest ceiling is the service industry. Here, every sixth employee states that it is difficult to express their opinion. In the construction and manufacturing industry, every seventh employee says they have difficulty in making their voice heard, while in service companies it is every eighth employee.
The risk with a culture of silence is that issues such as discrimination, harassment, and financial irregularities are not addressed. To break the pattern, management must take responsibility, says organizational psychologist Jonas Mosskin to DN.
First, you need to make a diagnosis and then conduct an investigation by an external party, since the chance is then greater that it will be more comprehensive, he says.
The survey is based on 300,000 responses from employee surveys over the past year.
