A Stanford professor says, at the rate things are going, workplaces will only get more toxic in the future

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A Stanford professor says, at the rate things are going, workplaces will only get more toxic in the future

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The future is bleak.

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No office is perfect.

Maybe you some of your coworkers are jerks. Perhaps your building has such intense AC that it feels like you're hunkered down in an eternal winter.

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Unfortunately, some rising trends seem sure to make the office a less pleasant place to be in the future.

At least, that's the view of Robert Sutton, a professor of management at Stanford University and author of "The No Asshole Rule" and "The Asshole Survival Guide."

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Here are a few things that Sutton said will ensure more strife, rudeness, and discontent in the workplace going forward: