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Trust
6 stories and 1 article about trust - what is happening, and what to do about it.
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Lack of trust in the workplace: how it erodes, and what rebuilds it
Trust at work rests on three things people judge: ability, benevolence and integrity. What the research says about losing it, and three things to do tomorrow.
Fair Play Talks · 27 days ago
One in Three CEOs Now Describe Their Own Workplace Culture as Toxic, Reveals Research
The people running the company now agree with the people working in it: a third of chief executives call their own culture toxic, and two in five employees do. Agreeing on the diagnosis is the easy half. The same study found executives in toxic cultures about twice as likely to report strong growth - the number that lets a board decide the treatment can wait.
ITV News Anglia · 6 October 2026
Medics allege 'toxic culture' at under-fire Addenbrooke's Hospital
The trust asked its own senior doctors, published what they said, then took the report down. Three in four described one pattern: raise a concern and you become the subject of one. The line that should worry a board is not the angry one - it is the doctor who has simply given up because nothing changes.
Mirage News · 25 August 2026
Independent Cultural Review Into Western Power
A new chief executive asked for it, the minister and board agreed the same week, and two of the country's most credible reviewers were appointed. This is what taking it seriously looks like - and 3,000 people still wait until early 2027.
Mental Health First Aid England · 2 February 2026
The cost of workplace silence: Nearly half of employees feel unsafe speaking up at work, new research reveals
The last figure is the one for a board: 15% made a preventable mistake because raising it felt more dangerous than letting it happen. Silence is not a wellbeing line item here, it is an operational risk with a defect rate attached.
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.