Nowadays, it seems like many workplaces have a toxic culture or at least a dysfunctional one. They demand — not just expect — more from their employees than any human being should have to, or be willing to, give.
Sixty-hour weeks. Twelve-hour days. Giving up weekends and holidays. They treat employees as fungible things that can be easily replaced, and regularly are, especially if they don’t live up to the brutal “standards” that are supposedly required by the free market.
Toxic workplaces also tend to be full of toxic people. Bullying of employees and coworkers is common. Gaslighting even happens, more regularly than we’d like to admit.
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