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With this February marking LGBT+ History Month, CIPD has released a new report on the quality of LGBT+ working lives. Dubbed Inclusion at work: Perspectives on LGBT+ working lives, it highlights how LGBT+ workers tend to face and have a more negative experience of work. It found that over 40% of LGB+ workers experienced a conflict at work over a 12-month period, compared with 29% of heterosexual workers. These conflict incidents included being undermined, humiliated or discriminatory behaviour aimed at a protected characteristic. In addition, more than half of trans workers stated that they experienced conflict over a 12-month period, with at least 50% of these currently unresolved. 12% of trans workers surveyed said that they experienced unwanted sexual attention at work, while two per cent have experienced sexual assault. Read more TSB unveils targets that ‘cover all aspects of diversity’ Trans workers reported that they were least likely to feel psychologically safe in the workplace, with almost one in five stating that they felt psychologically unsafe at work compared with 16% of LGB+ workers and ten per cent of heterosexual workers. CIPD’s data found that a slightly higher proportion of LGB+ workers felt somewhat to very dissatisfied with their
