Gossip@work uses tech tools
According to a new study from Georgia Tech, it is estimated that the average corporate email user sends 112 emails every day and about one out of every seven of those messages can be called gossip.
We check with professionals if email exchange is the most ripe gossip grapevine at their workplace.
Manjiri Indulkar, a media professional, feels that gossip within the office certainly travels through various mediums, and emails could be one of them.
She says, “Office emails can surely give way to gossip at work station, but one out of every seven mails seems a little too far fetched. Gossip certainly is exchanged over emails and possibly over the E2.0 messenger systems, which is the in-house messenger system in most companies, but I feel professionals should understand that official mails are strictly meant for work and if they use it for personal conversation then it can put them in trouble and show them in bad light.”
Nishant Verma, a HR professional at a telecom company, opines that office gossip spreads usually when someone leaks any confidential or personal email by mistake.
He says, “When forgetful professionals tend to leave their emails logged in and forget to lock their computers, others trespass through their personal stuff. Now people who are smart won’t share gossip over emails/SMSes, because anything that is in black and white can get them into trouble.”
However, Nikhil Wason, an IT professional, feels that in most IT companies, where only official mails are allowed at workstation, many people use their official ids to exchange personal emails. He says, “In many companies people use their official email for sending forwards, and also for chatting with fellow colleagues or friends outside office. But in the past few years there has been a discernible decline in the number of people who do this, maybe because the companies have started keep a tab on the employee email exchange so everything is under the scanner.”
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