Office Gossip: Advantages and Pitfalls | The Harvard Business Review Guide

Gossip at Work: Benefits and Pitfalls | The Harvard Business Review Guide

27 Jun 2024

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Everyone participates in some form of workplace gossip–and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Good gossip helps us connect with others and glean information. Done wrong, though, it can damage reputations and ruin relationships. Here’s how to get it right.

For more on gossip:

https://hbr.org/2013/02/go-ahead-and-gossip

https://hbr.org/2010/09/defend-your-research-its-not-unprofessional-to-gossip-at-work

https://hbr.org/2018/10/stop-complaining-about-your-colleagues-behind-their-backs

00:00 Not all gossip is created equal

01:20 What is ‘gossip’?

01:58 Gossip as information

03:08 Gossip as reputational information