The BBC has spent £61,000 on office accessories to encourage staff to call out bad behavior in the wake of recent scandals.
The corporation has bought 10,000 pin badges, 7,000 mugs and 6,000 lanyards for the new ‘Call It Out’ campaign, according to a Freedom of Information request by Sky News.
The campaign was launched by director general Tim Davie in April, in response to its Workplace Culture Review.
The review was commissioned in the wake of the Huw Edwards scandal and found that there were ‘powerful figures’ at the BBC who made their colleagues' lives ‘unbearable’.
The new initiative hopes to ‘encourage open feedback, celebrate positive behaviour and deal promptly with concerns’, as well as help staff to raise workplace concerns.
