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In a paper published in the Journal of Management Studies, Lutgen-Sandvik says not only victims but observers were more likely to report feeling stressed and dissatisfied with their jobs.

Talking back to a bully typically aggravates the behaviour, Lutgen-Sandvik is quoted as arguing.

A better strategy is to alert superiors, and if you can join forces with co-workers and complain as a group, you’re twice as likely to succeed, Lutgen-Sandvik found.

Of course, sometimes it’s the boss administering the doses of workplace humiliation — small stresses that take a cumulative toll.

“If the bad moments on the job outnumber the good, the best health choice may be to start polishing your resume,” Newsweek quotes the paper as saying.

This was one of the five “little and not-so-little annoyances from dry eyes to rushed lunches” at work that was identified by Newsweek from various published studies that can adversely affect health.

Believe it or not, even low-level noise in open-style offices results in stress, says a Cornell study quoted by Newsweek.

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