Even postelection, workplace incivility is rising and people are quitting because of it

Many people hoped the temperature would fall on divisiveness, angry rhetoric and uncivil debates over politics and social issues after November’s election, but that has not happened in the workplace. In fact, it is rising.

The Alexandria, Virginia-based Society for Human Resource Management, which conducts periodic surveys about workplace encounters with incivility, said such incidents have reached the highest level of the year, and incivility is expected to continue rising in 2025.

In its survey...