Company culture | How to deal with toxic colleagues

Several employers have hit headlines recently over toxic workplace cultures.

Culture Trips’ CEO, for example, has come under immense scrutiny for creating a culture of ‘fear and constant turnover’. The firm has quickly gained a reputation as being one of the most toxic workplaces. But it seems that it is not the only firm to have come unstuck by a toxic culture label.

Amnesty International lost a large portion of its senior leadership team amid allegations that the workplace was plagued with a “toxic” culture. Yet, as is evident in both of these instances, working environments don’t become toxic on their own; cultures become toxic because of people working within them who express poisonous character traits and behaviours.

So, what are traits of toxic colleagues?