10 ways toxic bosses drive their employees away

The average Briton will encounter at least two bad bosses over their working lifetime, research by the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has found.

Whilst dealing with a couple of bad eggs throughout our careers is a given, toxic bosses are usually the reason employees start to stray and look elsewhere. A 2015 Gallup study found that, of the 7,200 surveyed, approximately half of them left a job to escape a manager.

Businesses can’t risk losing their top people through bad management – and their reputation could even dissuade new talent from joining; a fifth of people would turn down a job offer if their new manager had a bad reputation, according to research by Penna.

Faye Nagy, former Vice President of Project Management at Wells Fargo Bank, has collated the ten components of a bad boss on her blog.