Detoxifying A Toxic Workplace

Fahad Naeem, Country Director , Randstad Malaysia | Dr Siti Khadijah Zainal Badri, Associate Professor of Applied Psychology and Wellbeing, University of Nottingham Malaysia

17-Apr-25 12:00

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In this episode, Enterprise explores how businesses can rejuvenate a toxic workplace. This is based on the 2025 Workmonitor research done by Randstad - the world's largest talent agency, which reveals 59% of talent resigned to leave toxic workplaces. To learn more about the impact of a toxic workplace towards a business, we speak with Fahad Naeem, Country Director at Randstad Malaysia and Dr Siti Khadijah Zainal Badri, Associate Professor of Applied Psychology and Wellbeing, Institute of Work, Organisation & Wellbeing, University of Nottingham Malaysia.

Produced by: Kishan Sivaswamy

Presented by: Richard Bradbury

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Categories: the workplace, Corporates, managing

Tags: toxic workplaces, employee-manager relationship, social connection, workplace wellbeing, emotional safety,

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