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‘I didn’t speak the Queen’s English’: Why people worry about their accents

A survey on attitudes towards accents suggests that so-called "accent bias" is still an issue in many workplaces.

‘I didn’t speak the Queen’s English’: Why people worry about their accents
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Pressivio’s Business desk has added the source report “'I didn't speak the Queen's English': Why people worry about their accents” to its international monitoring stream.

A survey on attitudes towards accents suggests that so-called "accent bias" is still an issue in many workplaces.

Original source: BBC Business
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