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The study that is mentioned: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382073071_Linguistic_Diversity_and_Public_Servants'_Turnover_Intentions_Theory_and_Analysis_from_a_Multilingual_State

But not all is well at the moment with Canada’s federal public service. In a forthcoming study to be published in the Review of Public Personnel Administration, my co-researcher and I find that the inability of both French and English-speaking federal public servants to work in their official language of choice is pushing them to consider quitting their jobs.

Approximately 40 per cent of English and French-speaking public servants, citing a low ability to use their official language at work, said they intended to quit their jobs for something else within the public service, whereas the probability of quitting was only 26 per cent among public servants expressing a high ability to use their official language at work.

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

Yes even if your supervisor is bilingual, it's still possible that your office has a dominant language by virtue of the majority.

But anyone who works in IT knows that the price of entry is knowing a certain amount of English, so I would be surprised that IT workers are the ones complaining. They wouldn't have completed whatever postsecondary taught them IT without learning the basics in English. It's baked into the industry. Like how biologists need to learn Latin names.