When is workplace chat ‘just gossip’ and when is it ‘sharing information’? It depends who’s doing it
- Written by James Greenslade-Yeats, Research Fellow in Management, Auckland University of Technology
THEBILLJR/ShutterstockWhen two junior employees bump into each other in the corridor and start chatting about their manager’s overbearing manner, it’s typically considered gossip. But what about when two managers have an off-record catch-up to discuss an under-performing employee?
Both scenarios meet traditional definitions of gossip...
