Gutting Gossip

Work at any job for even a short period of time and you're guaranteed to be exposed to gossip. Co-workers talk about each other—a lot. Typical evidence of this comes from the American Society for Training and Development which found, in a large national survey, that 64 percent of people say they gossip at work “sometimes” while more than one in five admits to being a “frequent participant” in workplace gossip.

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