Sharing at work can be good. Oversharing is not.

Sun, 10/01/2023 - 05:21

Illustration of a person talking into a bullhorn in an office and a frustrated coworker — Sometimes we're sharing too much at work.
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Many people enjoy sharing stories about their lives with coworkers.
But it can go too far when we drone on about our kids too much or talk about things like sex.
Pandemic lockdowns didn't help younger workers who might not have learned what's OK at work.

The quality of the woman's work had been sliding.

Yasmin Sampson-Da Rocha pulled the woman into yet another meeting to try to figure out what was going on. Finally, the woman broke down: In the span of months, the woman's father had died, she'd broken up with her boyfriend, and she'd had to move to a new city.