Terry Prone: Full employment means staff can readily leave a toxic workplace

You may assume vintage tales of inappropriate workplace behaviour could not happen today — but a quick survey tells me toxicity is alive and well in organisations large and small

Backstairs gossip suggests that the claimed toxicity of ITV as a workplace lay in the top talent such as Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby having little direct contact with juniors. Apart that is from Schofield's unwise affair with one of the most junior staff. File picture: PA/ITV

Funny word, ‘toxic’. It can mean anything from ‘a mother I don’t like that much’ to ‘an intolerable political regime’. 

Or, in the case of ITV, a general accusation of workplace toxicity, which is difficult to prove or disprove.