Lizzie Barmes, Professor of Labour Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Law, Equality and Diversity (LEAD) at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has penned a blog post for QMUL on 'The challenges of working life in an era of individual of legal rights'. In the blog she writes: 'On the surface, our workplaces have never been more safe, sanitised, and rights-based', but 'our individual experiences do not always tally with this superficially benign picture. Scratch the surface and it is easy to find pockets of conflict and toxicity lurking beneath the veneer of workplace harmony.'