I am aware of situations like this. An employee I know was given a completely false performance evaluations despite having been one of the most productive people in her team. Members of her team and other teams had previously praised her for her contributions towards helping them and their organization. One day out of the blue one day she was told she was under-performing. Then she was given a "test task" to "improve her performance". The task given was extremely challenging with very short timescales and after she delivered it in time, she was told it was not good enough for nitpicky reasons.

I do not find this situation unusual at all. I am even aware of cases that led to suicides. Issues like this are prevalent in every organization, private or governmental that I have any knowledge of. Even the UN is not free of such issues : https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018ljw

There is an opportunity here for a sociologist to do some good research to explain why this is such a common problem and what can be done about. However at the root of the problem is the fact that laws pertaining to work place bullying are almost non-existent in most countries. There are some laws pertaining to "harassment" which is like bullying but only when applied to protected categories. This is another opportunity for a political scientist to investigate why do almost all countries not have well developed laws against workplace bullying. It doesn't take a genius to propose hypothesis regarding both these questions. It may take a genius to provide incontrovertible scientific evidence substantiating any such hypothesis.

If any such scholarly work is made available and widely circulate, it could be used to raise public awareness and apply political pressure for better legislation. Which family has not had to deal with stress due to work ? Which family has not felt strained by these experiences ?

There is also an opportunity for some bold and enterprising technical person to start a social platform that allows sharing of information with legal protection. Information that would allow prospective job applicants to get authentic and potentially verifiable information about organizations and individuals. If such a platform can be created, protected and made self sustaining it would make a big difference.

Finally these is an opportunity for artists to create moving works of art and literature that raise social consciousness and change attitudes so that the "bosses" get the social experience they deserve out side their offices where they pretend to be "normal people" (who don't drive others to suicide and don't feel guilty about anything).

As much as I would like to hope for a better future, progress in these matters in the near future seems unlikely to me, for reasons explained very clearly in this sources

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE

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