Wellbeing | Almost 50% of UK staff say toxic work environments impact their mental health

In the current candidate-driven talent market, both attracting and retaining staff is a key concern. To prevent high turnover, HR should be ensuring that corporate culture is positive and welcoming, yet new data from Culture Shift has discovered that many may be failing in this goal.

In fact, the data determined that 42% of workers believe toxic workplace culture has negatively impacted their mental health, whilst one third have felt silenced on issues that matter to them in the workplace.

A worrying 29% have also taken time off due to an incident work such as bullying, harassment, discrimination or sexual misconduct. A further 41% confirmed bad workplace culture has impacted their productivity, and 42% have previously left a job due to negative workplace culture.

Not only is poor corporate culture affecting workers within their current roles – in fact the data found that two thirds believed it affected their confidence and ability to find a new job, 67% suffered from anxiety as a direct result of workplace bullying and 71% have actually had to seek out therapy due to an issue they experienced at work.