![]() It is understandable how employees see the company through their immediate boss. Sometimes, employees’ financial needs too are a reason for them to continue in a toxic workplace.Īccording to a survey conducted by researchers at Randstad US, Sixty percent of employees have left jobs, or are considering leaving, because of bad bosses. Employees continue to work for these workplaces even if they know it’s a wrong path because of escalation of commitment, which is the behavior that leads us to continue to invest time, money, or effort into a bad decision or unproductive course of action even when, deep down, we know it’s all wrong. But it is not really easy to determine if a workplace is toxic and lacks psychological safety. ![]() No one would willingly want to join a workforce where the culture is toxic enough to destroy employee morale. A month ago, an investigation from The Guardian revealed numerous cases where Amazon workers were left to suffer after sustaining workplace injuries, which left them unable to work, deprived of a stable income, and were forced to fight for months to receive benefits and medical care. Allegations by The New York Times back in 2015 claimed that Amazon’s employees were expected to stay late, almost till midnight, attend long meetings designed to force employees to tear apart one other’s ideas and respond to emails as late as midnight.Īnother report by New York Post story alleges that the warehouse employees peed into bottles because of the fear of getting into trouble for taking too long away from job. ![]() A company can look really terrific from the outside, but only the employees working there can understand how their work-culture is and how it affects their performance at work as well as their career growth.įor example, Who wouldn’t want to be a part of a leading edge company like Amazon? But Amazon’s harsh work-culture has made headlines in the past few years.
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