New research by Slater and Gordon, involving 2000 workers, has revealed that tight deadlines, personality clashes and office politics often caused tensions to run high with more than 37% of those questioned saying they felt they had been bullied themselves and a further 21% admitting they have witnessed colleagues being subjected to abuse. Obvious bullying behavior included shouting, swearing, shoving, intimidation and humiliation.  More subtle forms of bullying comprised of sabotaging a colleague’s work and leaving a co-worker out of work drinks, lunches and meetings, (social exclusion). However, while most people had witnessed or believed they had faced bullying in the workplace, only 48% did anything about it. 

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