Overview
- About 37% of adults report having faced offline mobbing, up 12.9% from 2021, equal to roughly 19 million people.
- Cybermobbing now affects about 14% of adults—over 7.2 million—with cases rising 21.7% since 2021.
- Workplaces account for roughly 43% of incidents, with supervisors implicated in more than half of those cases.
- Young adults are most exposed, with 45% reporting mobbing and 25% reporting cybermobbing.
- The study links abuse to severe mental-health harm and economic losses, including suicidal thoughts among about a quarter of cybervictims and an estimated €4.3 billion in annual sickness costs.