How to Resist Participating in Office Gossip

STOP. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. This is where it ends, my friend.

Or rather, where it should end. Sometimes you can see the office gossip train coming from a colleague a mile away, other times it’s much more subtle. The thing is, how it approaches doesn’t really matter. What does matter is how you react to it.

The subject is tackled in The New York Post and Greg Giangrande, human resources executive in the media industry, says a reader is “absolutely right” in an attempt to resist to peer pressure.

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