'Helpful' Coworkers Are Less Liked, Study Finds
Unselfish, do-gooder coworkers are among the least liked by colleagues, a new study finds. It’s because those who are the first to volunteer help raise the bar, and other workers feel the new standard will make everyone look bad.
“It doesn’t matter that the overall welfare of the group or the task at hand is better served by someone’s unselfish behavior. What is objectively good, you see as subjectively bad,” study co-author Craig Parks of Washington State University told Wired Science.
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