Summary of key insights PREVALENCE RATES Prevalence rates show harassment and bullying affects all sectors in New Zealand and cuts across all socio-economic groups. However, as shown in the body of this report a number of groups are disproportionately affected, e.g. Māori, Pacific Peoples, and Asian workers, as well as disabled workers, and bisexual workers. Differences in prevalence rates using the labels of sexual harassment and racial harassment versus the behavioural definitions points to a gap in worker understanding of what constitutes these types of harassment. Sexual harassment 17% 30% 23% 6 …of workers report being ‘sexually harassed’ in their working life. …of workers in the last 5 years experienced one or more of the sexual harassment behaviours measured in the survey. …of workers are aware of sexual harassment affecting others in their workplace in the last 5 years. KANTAR PUBLIC 2022 RACIAL HARASSMENT 15% 39% 29% …of workers report being ‘racially harassed’ in their working life. …of workers in the last 5 years experienced one or more of the racial harassment behaviours measured in the survey. …of workers are aware of racial harassment affecting others in their workplace in the last 5 years. BULLYING 40% 20% 44% …of workers report being ‘bullied’ in their working life. …of workers experienced one or more of bullying behaviours measured in the survey ‘often’ or ‘always’ in the last 12 months. …of workers are aware of bullying affecting others in their workplace in the last 5 years.