How exposing the truth at work can cost you your career. Theo Leggett speaks to whistleblowers Ian Foxley and Bianca Goodson, both of whom found it impossible to get a new job after exposing wrongdoing at their respective employers. Psychotherapist David Morgan describes the emotional toll on those who choose to expose wrongdoing, and why the majority stay silent. And whistleblower lawyer Mary Inman, partner at the law firm Constantine Cannon, argues that companies need to start seeing whistleblowing as a help rather than a threat.
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offshore accounts
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all walks of life
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offshore accounts
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tight-lipped
damage to the career
too hot to handle
in the business terms
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ensuing loss of
charged with corruption
all walks of life
brazenly fraudulent
to speak out
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a public figure
by choice
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exploited labour
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in desperation
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to report internally
to sideline a career
be confronted with hard truth
snitch mentality
to address sth internally
to put a burden on sm
to retaliate
to reverse the burden of proof
to follow suit
to go public with sth
to go through a trauma
obliterated
clear conscience
to live by the values
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