In Europe there are 12 million people who suffer forms of psychosocial violence on the workplace. That’s what emerges from a survey conducted by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and presented in recent days at an ACLI conference on “Mobbing: professional disease”. Another finding of the survey is that in Europe every worker, at the beginning of his career, has a 25% chance of suffering actions of mobbing (or group harassment). There’s little difference between the percentage of men subject to mobbing (45%) and that of women (55%). The mobbing is mainly carried out by men against other men (76%) whereas the percentage of women who harass men is only 3%. Women are harassed by other women in 40% of cases, while the percentage of men who harass women is 30%. The situation varies from country to country: in Italy, according to the researchers, the percentage is 4.2%, in Greece 4.7%, in Belgium 4.8%, in Spain 5.5%, in Germany 7.3%, in Ireland 9.4%, in France and in Finland 9.9%, in Sweden 10.2%, and in Great Britain 16.3%.
