What’s Behind the Rash of Alleged Toxic Workplaces and How Can Communicators Help?

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Another day, another story of a toxic workplace. At least itseems that way. There’s a litany of alleged toxic workplaces,including at “The Ellen Show,” the Washington football team,McDonald’s, Hearst and Pinterest, to name just a few.A variation on the age-old question: Are there more toxicworkplaces now, or does it only seem that way because we’rehearing about them more as a result of an activist media andsocial media?We asked someone who would know.Jennifer Musselman spent two decades asa corporate communicator at MTV and Nickelodeon.She made a mid-career change toclinical psychology and executive coaching.