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Blog Overview Blogger Profiles Event Calendar You can also visit our other sites: EmployeeWellness.ca WellnessFair.ca Workplace Wellness Info on NaturalHealthcare.ca	\| Share: \| more Work Bullying Linked With Poor Sleep The reach of the work bully extends well beyond the office. Research shows that employees who get bullied at work have sleep problems at home. According to a study published the trauma of bullying in the workplace is so great that it even appears to affect those who witness a co-worker being mistreated. Workplace bullying can include actions like belittling comments and yelling to spread gossip and excluding someone from an important meeting. Usually victims are helpless to defend themselves because many companies donâ€™t have procedures in place to stop the behavior. A study done last year found that workplace aggression can be more damaging than sexual harassment. The study was done by the French national health agency. They surveyed a random sample of 3 132 and 4 562 women in southeast France. The researchers found that about one in ten workers in the sample experienced â€śhostile behaviorâ€ť at work at least once a week. Bullying victims were more likely to report sleep problems than workers who didnâ€™t experience hostility at work. About one in three people studied reported that they had seen a co-worker bullied in the previous 12 months. Witnessing bullying in the workplace also doubled the risk for sleep problems. Those who watched others get bullied suffered from health problems because itâ€™s stressful to witness another person being harmed. The witnesses to bullying may suffer health problems because itâ€™s stressful to witness another person being harmed. â€śThe presence of bullying in a workplace may also be a sign of a more generally deleterious working environment that may present other job stressors, such as failures in managerial leadership or organizational injustice,â€ť Dr. Niedhammer said, the studyâ€™s principal investigator. Read more here Source (please note, some articles are only available for a limited time.) 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