According to the latest employment study from recruiters Badenoch & Clark, British managers are struggling to win the trust of their staff - one in six workers don't believe a word their employer says.
Only 15% of the 1,005 respondents said they totally trusted their manager. One of the knock-on results of this mistrust is a ramping up of the office rumour-mill. One in four workers reported an increase in company gossip since the recession has taken hold - a figure that goes up to 49% amongst banking and finance professionals.
And there'a an interesting geographical split - almost a third (32%) of workers in the Midlands don't believe what their manager has to say.
Neil Wilson, managing director at Badenoch & Clark, says: "These figures should come as a wake up call to employers and managers throughout the country. There's currently significant effort being put in by many organisations to carefully control what is told to employees about business performance, but all of that is for nought unless there's an element of trust between employer and employee".
