a Workforce Group Study Diversity at work, released this Monday, concluded that 51.89% of Portuguese people consider it preferable to conceal information about their sexual orientation in a job interview. In addition, only 33.49% of professionals admit to admitting their sexual orientation in the workplace.
“Assuming the presence or absence of a sexual orientation in the context of a job interview is still a non-consensual topic. In Portugal, 51.89% of all respondents, whether or not they belong to the LGBTQI+ community, believe it is more beneficial for a candidate to conceal their sexual orientation during the hiring process.‘, concludes the study.
Analysis data was collected from approximately 4,800 responses in 14 countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Just 34% of Portuguese professionals interviewed and 41% of the LGBTQI+ community said they felt open to revealing their sexual orientation in a professional contexta value that places Portugal in the middle of the European scale, with Spain at the opposite poles – 48% of Spanish workers say they are open to recognizing their sexual orientation in the context of work – and the Czech Republic – with 30% of survey respondents sharing their condition with their peers.
When asked whether the choice of new job opportunities includes LGBTQI+ company policies, 35.98% of survey respondents in Portugal assumed so.
The study concluded that this figure is the second highest in the European context, and is not only surpassed by Italy, with 41.31% placing these policies as a priority in their decision-making process.
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