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Can online reporting stop workplace microaggressions?
Staff at a law firm can now log harassment on a tech platform – but some suggest they talk about their problems instead.
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The most important thing for ensuring that microaggression reporting is more than a fig leaf? Employers need to take concrete actions in response to what they hear.
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Emma Jacobs
Law firm Hogan Lovells has launched a new way to improve relations in the workplace. If staff experience unacceptable behaviour like someone taking credit for their work, or microaggressions such as bias related to age, gender or race, they can now log it online, discreetly flagging the problem to management.
The firm introduced the tool after noticing employee “reluctance to call out seemingly ‘minor incidents’, which may nonetheless contribute to someone feeling excluded or marginalised”, Ms Penny Angell, its UK managing partner, says.
