EXCLUSIVE: A BBC staff survey has exposed a “really concerning” level of confidence over how the corporation handles bullying and harassment complaints, according to internal emails from the corporation’s news boss and interim content chief.
The memos from Deborah Turness and Kate Phillips, both sent to their teams this week and seen by Deadline, home in on misconduct as a key issue, coming as a high-profile workplace culture review gets set to publish in just a few days’ time.
Phillips’ email said that, “really concerningly,” confidence that bullying or harassment concerns will be dealt with appropriately had dropped by 6%, according to the staff survey.
In her email to her team, Turness noted: “Our scores on how we handle bullying and harassment are not where they should be, with 48% thinking we deal with concerns appropriately and only 43% of people saying they have confidence in our whistleblowing policy.”
Overall, Deadline understands that 58% of BBC employees believe bullying or harassment concerns will be dealt with appropriately and 51% say they have confidence in whistleblowing policies.
Turness’ email went on to say: “It’s really important that this improves — we are committed to doing better.” She cited how the workplace culture review will “include changes and actions that will be put in place to address the findings.”
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