{"id":176662,"date":"2024-07-16T08:17:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T06:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-battling-silent-torment-combating-workplace-harassment-and-ensuring-occupational-safety-in-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T08:17:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T06:17:28","slug":"zimbabwe-battling-silent-torment-combating-workplace-harassment-and-ensuring-occupational-safety-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-battling-silent-torment-combating-workplace-harassment-and-ensuring-occupational-safety-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Battling Silent Torment &#8211; Combating Workplace Harassment and Ensuring Occupational Safety in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">For Alice*, work has become a daily battle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">When she started as a communications officer at a rising communications company in Harare, she had high hopes for an exciting career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">She was thrilled by the prospect of crafting messages and building a brand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Instead, it has become a relentless burden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">&#8220;I&#8217;m constantly verbally attacked by my immediate boss,&#8221; she told 263Chat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">&#8220;He calls me &#8216;incompetent&#8217; and &#8216;useless&#8217; whenever I make a mistake. Once, he yelled, &#8216;Do you even know what you&#8217;re doing here?&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407160087.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Alice*, work has become a daily battle. When she started as a communications officer at a rising communications company in Harare, she had high hopes for an exciting career. She was thrilled by the prospect of crafting messages and building a brand. Instead, it has become a relentless burden. &#8220;I&#8217;m constantly verbally attacked by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,8853,14647,13511,2898,257,23577,4672,7616,254,34316,10426,4686,421],"class_list":["post-176662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battling","tag-combating","tag-ensuring","tag-harassment","tag-news","tag-occupational","tag-safety","tag-silent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-torment","tag-workplace","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}