Committed a workplace gaffe? You will survive it (and you may even get promoted)
- Written by Craig Jackson, Professor of Occupational Health Psychology, Birmingham City University
Nearly everybody has emailed the wrong thing to the wrong person at the wrong time. It’s a leveller in modern workplaces. The consequences of errors may be immense or trivial, but not much can change that now. The error was your doing: you underperformed, messed up, failed to do the job, or perhaps you were caught lying....