Signs your workplace is toxic

- Around 30 million, or one in nine US workers experience their workplace as toxic according to research conducted by MIT Sloan School of Management. Most of us have experienced these environments where people behave badly across levels. This behavior goes without consequences and it fosters a workplace or culture where you don't feel safe, seen, or valued. Your and likely everyone else's work product reflects this and isn't optimal. Trust, respect, and transparency are non existent, and it feels like everyone is on their own. First of all, I think a toxic environment is defined in terms of how people feel. It's hard to measure, it's a feeling, it's sort of the soup that people are moving around in day to day, it's not the company's reputation, but it's how are you being treated? How do you feel? How are other of your peers, your bosses, how are they treating you? How do people treat one another? Do you feel safe? Do you feel like you can trust your team members and your leadership? And I keep going back to leadership because as I might've said before, leaders are modeling this behavior. If there are bad behaviors going unchecked regularly, you almost absolutely have a toxic environment because there are no consequences to bad behavior and it's essentially a free for all.