Survey on jargon and culture of silence

If a job applicant fulfils the formal requirements for a job, how do managers at Swedish companies think they themselves would be affected by the candidate's name, ethnicity, language and religion? Some aspects of the Järvaveckan survey stand out: a clear majority do not react negatively to foreign-sounding names. But almost nine out of ten would be negatively affected if the candidate spoke poor Swedish. And a large proportion would react negatively if the person has religious or cultural dress, Muslim beliefs or if

Many workplaces are still designed around a rather narrow view of how we function, communicate and organise work. For people with ADHD or autism, this can create barriers in their day-to-day work - barriers that are not about skills, but about how work is structured, managed and monitored. There is a risk that skills are not fully utilised, with consequences for the work environment, performance and skills supply. At the same time, research shows that many work at least as

Employees and managers are an important asset in the workplace - that's why workplaces need to continuously invest in their culture. I meet workplaces where the wheels are turning at full speed and where people say they simply don't have time to work on their workplace culture. I also meet workplaces that have had, or are facing, downsizing, where they say that in this situation they cannot prioritise working on their culture. In both cases, this is a

To what extent do employees experience sexual harassment and victimisation in the workplace? Sexual harassment and victimisation are serious work environment problems that affect both the safety of individuals and the ability of organisations to create sustainable workplaces. In order to prevent and respond, employers need to understand what victimisation looks like, how it can be measured and why different surveys sometimes give different pictures. On this page, we summarise the latest results from the Swedish Work Environment Authority's Work Environment 2024 survey and

What is racism? Racism is ideas, prejudices, attitudes but also actions and practices. Racism classifies ”people into different varieties attributed to particular inherited characteristics” and creates and ”maintains an unequal distribution of status, privileges, resources, rights and opportunities” and makes natural/self-evident ”the power order created by the principles of sorting, placement and distribution” (quote from the report Anti-Black Racism and Discrimination in the Labour Market by the County Administrative Board of Stockholm, 2018, pp. 15-16) There are different types of racism, for example

How do employees perceive the jargon in their workplace? And to what extent do employees feel that they are mistreated or subjected to varying degrees of offensive behaviour from their colleagues, managers or others in work situations? Harmful jargon In the Harassment Survey, 12 % indicate that at their workplace, to a fairly large or very large extent, there is jargon that people can take offence at. There is no difference between women and men's experiences. In the age group 18-29