‘Negativity and toxic thoughts about others brings down your immune system’
The effects of workplace gossip are mostly negative,
especially for the person who is the subject of the gossip. The only way to
reduce the negative effects of workplace gossip is to help silence it.
Many employees
have a hard time confronting gossip in the workplace. It is not because it is
difficult to talk about, too personal, or disrespectful. It is because gossip
in the workplace is such an incredible waste of their time.
When an employee confides in another co-worker, the
conversation should remain confidential. If words spoken in confidence become
the subject of workplace gossip, it can result in co-workers losing trust in
each other.
Gossipers come in two groups, the once that do not know the
truth and talk in ignorance because someone else mentioned it, OR the once that know the truth but are awfully
jealous and feels that the person involved cannot or should not achieve such
feat even if such feat is as minor as eating, sleeping or taking a vacation!
These gossipers forget that they also have very bad
characters with loads of dirty linens and that every other person sees them as
insensitive and immature in behaviour.
