A third of Britain's workers have suffered or witnessed bullying.
More than half of those cases involved bosses bullying their subordinates, according to research for recruitment specialists Eden Brown.
Bullying goes on more often among people of the same sex with 40 per cent of men and 33 per cent of women suffering same sex bullying.
But 80 per cent of workers took no action. Of those who did, 20 per cent said they spoke to the protagonists and 33 per cent discussed it with their boss or personnel department.
A national representative sample of 907 full and part-time working people were interviewed.
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