Flawed disciplinary cases at work cost UK economy £28.5bn a year, doctors say

Processes involved in many of those actions are flawed because organisations put formal ways of pursuing them above their staff’s wellbeing. Photograph: Sevak Aramyan/Alamy

Workers are being left burnt out by “poorly executed” disciplinary investigations at work that cost the UK economy £28.5bn a year, public health doctors have said.

Badly handled disciplinary proceedings damage not just the staff involved but also their colleagues and the organisation that employs them, according to the UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH).