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Jun 2023
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Toxic workplace culture and what to do a...

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After a string of high-profile accusations about toxic cultures in workplaces, the Sky News Daily hears from a Harvard professor credited with turning around problems at Uber.

Frances Frei, the senior vice-president of leadership and strategy at the company, explains how she made siginifcant changes in a matter of months to address an environment rife with claims of sexism.

Host Kimberley Leonard also asks legal trainer Neha Lugg about why bad behaviour in the workplace is coming under a new level of scrutiny.

Podcast producer: Sydney Pead
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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