Canadian Workplace Bullying and Harassment Statistics and Research

Workplace violence prevention: Get the stats

Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC). Retrieved from: http://psacunion.ca/workplace-violence-prevention-get-stats

Workplace bullying

A 2012 Workplace Bullying survey of 552 full-time employed Canadians found the following:

• 45% of respondents said they were bullied. Sources of bullying were: 24% coworker, 23% immediate boss, 17% higher manager, 17% external to company (e.g. customers)
• Only one-third of workers reported the bullying to HR.
• One-third of bullied workers said it caused them health problems.
• 26% of bullied workers stopped the bullying by quitting their jobs.

Workplace harassment

• A 2014 Queens University poll found that 23% of Canadians have experienced workplace harassment.
• A 2014 Angus Reid survey reported than one quarter (28%) of Canadians have experienced sexual harassment in their place of work or at a work-related function (43% women and 12% men).

Physical violence in the workplace

In 2007, Statistics Canada released a report called Criminal Victimization in the Workplace. Highlights from the report include the following:

• Nearly one-fifth of all incidents of violent victimization, including physical assault, sexual assault and robbery, occurred in the victim's workplace
• 71% of the workplace violent incidents were classified as physical assaults.
• Men and women were equally likely to have reported experiencing workplace violence.
• 27% of incidents involving male victims resulted in injuries, compared with 17% of those involving female victims.

Other Canadian Research

Workplace Bullying and Harassment: Costly Conduct

Hudson, D. ( 2015). Queen’s University: Industrial Relations Centre (IRC) Faculty of Arts & Science. Retrieved from: http://irc.queensu.ca/sites/default/files/articles/workplace-bullying-and-harassment-costly-conduct-by-deborah-hudson.pdf.