Earlier in my ex-companies life, they had a real low threshold for terminating someone who was toxic. As the other CEO's took over, company lost its customers,

Earlier in my ex-companies life, they had a real low threshold for terminating someone who was toxic. As the other CEO's took over, company lost its customers, and became more financially stressed, the tolerance for wrongdoing increased until it was basically as the chart in the article stated with offences having to be pretty severe (bullying, sexual harrassment) to cause termination. It was almost like the company needed the toxic people to keep the lights on.