Is privacy at risk?

I can empathise with the findings that few people would approach their employer or HR department with health / personal concerns. As soon as you have told someone(anyone)there is the potential for the information to be spread. No-one can be 100% certain that the 'boss' will not tell HR, no-one can be absolutely certain the HR will not tell the 'boss'and particularly close friends/ colleagues. It is also possible that 'others' will overhear conversations and, all of a sudden, that one person who you have confided in becomes a list of six plus people who may be party to confidential information. The information may be spread deliberately, or by sheer accident but regardless of how, it happens. If promotion is a possibility, the divulging of any potential 'weakness' would also probably scupper anyones chances. It is a difficult subject - I for one would never talk to HR, I think the days of total confidentiality are long gone.

Posted by: Anon e mouse