I’m not entirely sure I agree. Toxic is simply demanding irrational behavior from your employees. For example, a toxic workplace could be one that just wants p

I’m not entirely sure I agree. Toxic is simply demanding irrational behavior from your employees. For example, a toxic workplace could be one that just wants people to return to the office despite great productivity while working from home (or vice versa, this is just an example). Something like this would be irrational because maintaining the current state doesn’t hurt the business, while the new required state (returning to the office) only exists to subordinate employees and ICs. It’s completely toxic behavior by management for do something like this. In an ideal workplace, the only thing that matters is results (within the confines of civil society and the law). So demanding anything other than that is toxic behavior. I don’t think anything you listed is inherently toxic, or even seen that way by Gen Z. However, any of the things you listed could be used to demand irrational behavior from employees. Behavior that intentionally keeps those employees from delivering results. This happens when a manger is more worried about his or her own status in the company than actually doing anything good for the company.