Toxic workplace statistics: four conditions at work, with the manager view first
This page publishes once at least 30 people have completed the toxic workplace test in the current window. Until then the count is shown as below the reporting floor and no figures are published.
Once a cut reaches 30 completions, it reports respondents who manage people first: which of the four conditions they score weakest (Safety, Fairness, Consequence, Load, read as Quiet, Uneven, Unheard and Overrun Place) and the mean on each. The same figures for respondents who do not manage people follow. The order is deliberate: the first figure is what people who run teams see from inside them. No figure describes what any workplace is.
Current edition
Fewer than 30 completions in this cut. Nothing is published below that floor. Next refresh: 2026-10-12.
Collection started on 2026-09-22. This page is rewritten when a refresh runs; the change log below carries every edition.
What this page will report
So that no cut is chosen after seeing the data, here is what is published when n reaches 30, and nothing else:
- Reading distribution by role level
- Dimension means by role level
- Reading distribution
- Mean score per dimension, 0 to 100
- Region
The floor rule
No cut is published with fewer than 30 completions. Where a cut falls below the floor, the chapter is published with the count and no figures. The floor is set before the edition and never lowered. Completions are counted, not people: the capture is anonymous and cookieless, so a returning visitor is not identifiable and is not de-duplicated. Ad blockers drop some events, so every count is a floor. The full rules are on the methodology page.
What this page will never publish
- Any percentage of workplaces that are toxic. The unit is a respondent's experience, never a workplace.
- Any cut that names or could identify an employer, or an industry small enough to identify one.
- Any free text. None is collected.
- Any cut below 30 completions, or any cut that still contains the site's own test runs.
How to read it against other surveys
Two outside figures frame this page. In April 2026 the Harris Poll reported that 60 percent of employed US adults say they currently have a toxic boss, while Bennett Tepper of Ohio State, who counts behaviour, puts the figure nearer 15 to 20 percent (HRD Asia).
In 2023, 82 percent of people who entered management told the Chartered Management Institute they had no proper management training (CMI and YouGov). This page counts neither toxic bosses nor toxic places. It counts which condition is weakest, with the manager cut first, so it reads as a measure of what untrained management leaves missing rather than as another share of people who feel badly treated.
How to cite this page
Leaders ADAPT, Toxic workplace statistics: four conditions at work, with the manager view first, Workplace Reality Index, edition 2026-09-23, https://www.leadersadapt.com/toxic-workplace-statistics/. Until a cut passes the floor there is no figure to cite; cite the method instead. Every published figure will carry its n, its window and its date on the same line.
Change log
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-22 | Page created with the tool. Collection begins. No figures published; n below floor. |
Take the tool
Every completion of the Toxic Workplace Test: the place, the boss or the week joins this sample anonymously. More free tools are at the tools shelf.
The four results
Every completed run lands on one of these pages, with your own scores drawn from the link the tool gives you. Each one is readable without taking the tool.
- Quiet PlaceSafety is weakest. People say it afterwards, in private.
- Uneven PlaceFairness is weakest. Rules bend for some people, not others.
- Unheard PlaceConsequence is weakest. Problems are raised and nothing changes.
- Overrun PlaceLoad is weakest. The hours take more than recovery gives back.
The other statistics pages
Every open tool on this site publishes its own statistics page under the same floor rule:
- AI job exposure statistics: how exposed people say their weekly tasks are
- Am I the problem at work? Statistics on self view and how others see you
- Boss pattern statistics: what people report about their bosses
- Golden handcuffs statistics: what people say keeps them in their jobs
- Job security statistics: the signals people report around their jobs
- Micromanaging statistics: how closely people say they are managed, and whether they know why
- Promotion block statistics: what stands between people and the next role
- Become a manager statistics: who wants the work, and who wants the title
- Should I quit statistics: what people asking are really leaving