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Managers

6 stories and 2 articles about managers - what is happening, and what to do about it.

• Article

  Month four: why culture fixes fade

  Many culture fixes work for a few weeks, then slide back. What a survey found, why effects fade, and three things to do before month four.

• Article

  What a toxic work environment does to a team, and what a manager can do before it sets

  Examples of everyday rudeness at work, how it spreads through a team and can turn into bullying, why fixes fade, and what a manager can do tomorrow.

• HR Executive · 31 August 2026

  Workplace wellbeing: The awareness gap has closed. The execution gap persists

  Awareness was never the bottleneck. Most of these organisations call burnout a strategic risk, and still nearly half have not made wellbeing anybody's actual job. What is missing is not belief but a mechanism - and a mechanism nobody owns is just the last person who cared, until they move team.

• HRreview · 21 August 2026

  Just 6% of employers see lasting change after tackling toxic behaviour, survey finds

  This is the whole argument in one number. Forty-five per cent got the improvement and then watched it decay - which is not a finding about bad interventions, it is a finding about interventions. Anything that happens once decays.

• iHire, via PR Newswire · 25 June 2026

  iHire Releases 2026 Toxic Workplace Trends Report

  Nearly seven in ten had worked somewhere toxic and 47.6% quit over it. Read the causes rather than the headline and it narrows usefully: this is not a workforce problem management must fix, it is a management problem the workforce is absorbing.

• Microsoft · 5 May 2026

  2026 Work Trend Index Annual Report: Agents, Human Agency, and the Opportunity for Every Organization

  The largest AI study of the year went looking for what decides whether the investment lands, and it was not the model, the licence or the training budget. It was the culture around the person using it.

• Engage for Success · 2026

  Productivity Starts with People: Key Findings from the 2026 Engage for Success Annual Survey

  Engage for Success asked whether leaders and managers put people issues first. Where staff saw both do it, engagement stood at 79%; where they saw neither, it was 50%, and more than a third of staff saw neither. The same report links command-and-control management with more stress and more people keeping quiet about problems, so the gap is less about perks than about how a manager runs the week.

• Gallup · 2026

  State of the Global Workplace: 2026 Report

  Global engagement fell to 20%, its lowest since 2020, at a cost Gallup puts near $10 trillion. The half nobody quotes is worse: the collapse is concentrated in managers, the exact people every culture programme is handed to for delivery.