Tip 2 – Reduce Workplace Stress and Avoid This Workplace Stress Trap – Don’t Be the Office Gossip

#2 Don’t Talk About Colleagues

If you want to become unpopular and leave yourself open to constant criticism, gossip about your colleagues. The average time for a piece of gossip to circulate within a small office is probably 36 hours. And guess what – the gossip always finds its way to the person about whom you were critical. Gossip in organizations can be a very dangerous weapon and behavior. Gossip adds to uncertainty, workplace stress, tension, anxiety and worse – retaliative aggression and gossip.