The High Price of a Toxic Boss

Susan Kelley
3 min readNov 19, 2022

Is Your Company Willing to Pay?

Gas Masks: Image Courtesy of Nikoli Alfina on Unsplash

According to the Society of Human Resources Management, toxic workplace cultures have driven 20% of U.S. employees out of their jobs in the past five years — at a turnover cost greater than $223 billion. The same study that came up with that number also revealed that employees most often hold their direct managers, not the executive team or the HR department, responsible for…

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Susan Kelley

Susan is a runner, a mom of 3 grown children, and an avid traveler. She writes about humans, and wrote a book about false accusations of sexual assault.