Image copyright Getty ImagesChat about football or cricket in the workplace should be curtailed, a management body has warned. Ann Francke, head of the Chartered Management Institute, said sports chat can exclude women and lead to more laddish behaviour. "They don't follow those sports and they don't like either being forced to talk about them or not being included." "But the issue is many people aren't cricket fans," she added, arguing bosses should crack down on sports banter. "It would be so, so negative to tell people not to talk about sport because girls don't like it or women don't like it, that's far more divisive."

Source: BBC January 27, 2020 08:48 UTC