Personnel turnover is high creating further instability and reducing productivity since new workers must continually be trained. Low morale and hostility become a way of work. Those who work hard and give their loyalty to the company are no longer rewarded with job security. Droves can be laid off at one stroke without advanced notice. A worker's impulse to retaliate against an employer who has fired him is an instinct of survival.
Job security means the family's livelihood.
Disrespect, humiliation, and ruination can be the precipitator of revenge. As a result of all these factors, the toxic workplace invites the violent workplace. Additionally, certain types of businesses increase the risk of workplace violence. Public administration agencies such as protective services and correctional institutions have twice the risk of the average workplace. Workers are at greater risk who deal with social service clients such as child abusers or domestic violence perpetrators, with criminal justice populations, or with mental health patients.