Workplace Gossip: Is All Gossip At The Office Bad Gossip?

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External News Details

According to a study by Eric Gilbert (Interactive Comp), even though negative gossip was 2.7 times more likely to appear in an employee's inbox, all gossip was an important exchange of social information. Source: Huffington Post

 

Additional Information

Groups

College of Computing, School of Interactive Computing

Categories
Computer Science/Information Technology and Security, Digital Media and Entertainment
Keywords
Eric Gilbert; hierarchy; email; workplace; gossip; Enron; Enron Corpus
Status
  • Created By: Michaelanne Dye
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Nov 6, 2012 - 10:17am
  • Last Updated: Oct 7, 2016 - 10:26pm