Some workplaces turn toxic as time goes on, and you may be faced with a difficult decision: Do you stay or do you go? Research has explored how a toxic workplace usually ruins employee engagement through a lack of support while causing negativity to spread, which leads to burnout and anxiety. When workers don’t feel supported, they will detach from their jobs. While some people may do all they can to get fired instead of quitting, sometimes managers will act in ways to force you into quitting, a move called “quiet firing.” They’ll purposefully create a hostile environment to make you leave the job of your own volition, so they don’t have to deal with the financial and legal fallout of actually firing you. A study suggested that quiet firing and quiet quitting are intertwined and act as a cycle of mutual frustration. It is difficult to determine which behavior starts first, as both feed into each other and stem from a breakdown in workplace trust — a dynamic that can create high costs for both …