Workplace toxicity has become a fashionable diagnosis. Scroll LinkedIn for five minutes, and you’ll find countless posts about surviving broken systems and psychologically unsafe environments. Now,  some workplaces are genuinely harmful. But most are not toxic; they are simply human. And humans, particularly under pressure to deliver, are imperfect.  This raises an uncomfortable question many HR leaders avoid: what if the toxicity isn’t being handed down by the organisation but generated at the employee level? Culture is the sum of collective daily behaviours. While leaders shape it, framing employees as passive recipients erodes personal accountability.  The Mirror Test  If you repeatedly