Why address the toxic workplace?

• Chronic stress is a real and growing health crisis in our society
• Stress is a major contributor to heart disease, high blood pressure, insomnia, gastrointestinal disorders, diabetes, migraine headaches, and chronic fatigue syndrome
• Stress can lead to debilitating psychological disorders such as depression and anxiety. Stress decreases the body’s ability to ward off infection and disease

The toxic workplace is a major source of social and psychological stress. They occur as a result of rising workload demands, hostility/tension between co-workers and managers, and an overall absence of wellbeing and respect in the work environment

Individuals learning to cope with stress addresses one part of the problem. Efforts to manage stress are more effective when they correspond with supportive conditions in the external environment