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Ask people to generate a list of social sins, and sooner or later, gossip is bound to come up. Sure, it pales in comparison to coveting thy neighbor, but the Bible does warn us that we should “not go ...

Most of us learn early in our careers that gossip is something to avoid. It’s portrayed as unprofessional, distracting, and even harmful. But research suggests a more nuanced story. What we commonly ...

A little smack talk may actually help your teams pull together and work harder. You might think that office gossip isn’t a good thing. At best, it means people aren’t concentrating on work, and are ...

It is one of those workplace phenomena that everybody knows about, but nobody wants to talk about — at least not officially. Gossip. It is as old as human society itself. In our offices, on our ...

Delightfully, at least from your employees’ perspective, research from a group of universities led by Rutgers shows the benefits of office gossip are most pronounced when staff are chatting about the ...