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Online poll suggests co-workers don't like eachother much
From the Vancouver Sun - Saturday, September 16th comes this somewhat shocking headline:
Vancouver Sun headline
The corresponding article confirms the results of a recent online poll of 2,000 adults, "22 percent of whom confess to despising their colleagues." According to the article, three quarters of the survey-takers regularly engage in in-office gossip about their co-workers, while 25 percent use social settings to share their gripes and complaints with eachother after hours. Thirty-three percent reported not socializing with their workmates at all. One in ten of the workers participating in the survey confessed to using email or online chats for airing their grievances (with half of those admitting to having sent those sometimes-nasty emails to the wrong recipient!) But it's not just peer-to-peer relationships that are seen as sour: Twenty percent of those surveyed named their boss as the main problem in the office with senior management named as the most disliked entity of the bunch. To read the entire article, click here.
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