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.
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”.
