In: Operations Management
Workplaces are often a mix of business and personal lives. Many consider their coworkers to be friends, so private personal matters often spill into the workplace.
Given this reality, what do you think is realistic for employees to expect in terms of privacy in the workplace?
Workplaces are often a mix of business and personal lives.
It is human tendency to be friendly with people you work with through out the day. So whatever goes through your mind you tend to share with at least a few colleagues who are closer to you.
There isn't any issue with that and most of the people do keep doing this. People do take lunch together or some other travel together or party together. Hence it's really difficult to just keep professional relations and not include personal topics.
Talking about privacy it's really difficult to be precise about whom to trust and whom not to. You will constantly find colleagues who will point out your negatives in your bad times.
Thus the personal discussions can hamper your professional life too.
Thus it will be good to know that you can not discuss your personal topics specifically the negative ones a lot.
You need to always keep a check on how much you are discussing and with whom you are discussing. Expecting privacy is not a good idea. Thus holding on a bit is the better way to go in professional life.