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Office gossip isn’t just idle chatter. It’s a valuable – but risky – way to build relationships

Written by Rachel Morrison, Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology

Gossip flows through the offices and lunchrooms of our workplaces, seemingly filling idle time. But perhaps, through these ubiquitous and intriguing conversations, we are influencing our workplace relationships more than we realise.

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