Research by the SHL Group has found that UK employees are the best in the world at covering up their mistakes made in the workplace!
In the psychometric assessment, employees admitted that 72% of their workplace mistakes, such as losing company property, sending sensitive e-mails to the wrong person, mistakes on financial orders, forgetting deadlines, and giving incorrect information to colleagues and customers, are never detected by their management.
It is estimated that these slip-ups cost business around £9.8 billion per year. American employees are not quite as bad as the UK workforce, with 68% admitting their errors in the workplace were never spotted by their managers, whilst in Australia, the figure was only 50%.
Our view
Great research. Don't know whether this is a good or bad thing though. Are the British too honest in owning up compared to our friends overseas? Are the British just poor at their jobs? Or are the British just bad managers and don't spot employees mistakes? We'll go for the honesty argument.