Unit 23 Is 0ffice Gossip Helpful or Hurtful
Do you take part in office gossip? I don't like to think of myself as a gossip, but I have to admit I often do it. Some defend it as a way of building bonds among people and sharing essential information. But others hold that office gossip can be savage and destructive, as the New York Times reports. (At one company, PrintingForLess.com, which has a strict no-gossip policy, gossiping about colleagues can become a firing offense.) In one case analyzed in a scholarly journal, middle school teachers' gossip about their principal became so poisonous that the principal retaliated,