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Are you guilty of these eight unhealthy ‘microaggressions’?

Are you guilty of these eight unhealthy ‘microaggressions’?

Such behaviour can have a serious impact on mental and physical wellbeing, including depression and sleeping problems, say experts – so it may pay to avoid it.

George Chesterton

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Microaggressions are everywhere. Or are they? These perceived verbal or behavioural slights in the workplace are increasingly obsessing firms and their employees. There’s a split between those who see identifying them as a way to make the workplace better and more equitable for everyone, and those who see them as a false construct of the “woke” industrial complex.

Now, law firm Hogan Lovell is offering a “microaggressions hotline” to its staff who wish to record what it calls “interactional bias”.

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