Good for your career office gossip

Recent UK research has revealed that office gossip are the latest tool in the promotion of the career ladder. The majority of staff UK offices would burn with shame if they found out about the results of research conducted across the country by order of the company, producing diet soft drinks. Research has shown that innocent at first glance, the chatter about the internal Affairs of the company, other colleagues and, of course, the boss (what usually say at work during breaks and over a Cup of tea) at the present time is a special art, which resources focused on career Brits use for promotion. And, of course, lead on the battlefield, it is not difficult to guess, it is women.

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The figures, obtained in the result are as follows. More than half of respondents (53%) admit that always discuss my colleagues and all processes within the company, 24% is dominated by conversations about family, some (22%) bring to the discussion of his personal life (22%) or their emotions (18%). And what exactly should all be worried by the management of the companies is the fact that every tenth employee (or rather 12% of all respondents) admitted that gossips about her boss much more than about the events of the day (7%) or celebrities (5%).



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In the report on the results of these studies it was concluded that gossip in the workplace is not just idle chatter distracting staff from works, it's more of a refined art, with its own specific code of conduct, which forms directly to the Foundation, the basis of modern office communication.



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No downtime!

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- Half of women aged 18 - 25 years (49%) say that communication solves everything and are a decisive factor that will help to achieve success in the workplace in our difficult times, when people in the fight for promotion ready to gnaw through each other's throat.


Six out of ten (57%) say they use short interruptions as a strategic moments to gossip and share secrets with colleagues to form these connections.


- The probability of using breaks during the working day as an additional possibility of forming strategic community women 20% higher than men.



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- Women spend in the gossip and chatter with their colleagues in an average of 69 minutes per day, which is generally equivalent to two years of total work experience.


The repertoire of topics for discussion in women more than men - average "session" women's gossip covers 5, 1 subject, while males only have 4, 6.


- Discussed - not just office tasks. Compared with men, women are three times as likely to discuss their family problems, 10% more talk about his personal life and 6% more Express their emotions.



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Etiquette gossip

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1. To be able to gossip, but never be "caught".


2. The expression "nobody loves gossip" means "nobody likes bad gossip".


3. To clearly understand the difference between a secret that can be used as an office "social currency" and to be an opportunity for discussion, and a secret that should be kept shut.


4. Chatting with colleagues, to know who is your friend, who is foe and who can be trusted.


5. Choose a place to gossip with the mind, and out of the office.



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Leading sociologist-anthropologist Kate Fox made the following findings: "People always talked about at work, but today, when people are at their jobs ready on all for the sake of career and salary increases, this seemingly harmless thing takes more subtle forms. Women are especially adept at this art, using every spare minute and every break from work for forming unbreakable bonds by empty at first glance conversations. And the fact that it may seem like a cute chatter, actually is well honed skills of communication, an integral part of the process of moving up the career ladder, when the ability to hit "beautiful gossip girl" and decisive use of downtime as a "device fine tuning" to build the necessary social circle can help you to stand out among their peers".

Author:

Pisarenko,


Source:

Orange Snow

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