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“Did you hear that the new Team Lead is flirting with the boss? ”; “Oh! he is getting divorced!”; “Her wallet got wacked from her bag!!” .W ho doesn’t like the juicy gossips and if it’s at the work place, the more the merrier! There were few people in my previous office, who were also known as ‘Mr. Know It All’ as they knew everthing about the workplace and people. However, office gossip is always regarded as vicious and hurting for the employees. People believe that it can hamper the… Continue

Last month I had a meeting with one of my old friends, who is now VP–HR in a fairly large IT setup. He informed me that he is planning to lay off a couple of hundred people in his company, in a phased manner. What surprised me was that he mentioned that out of them around 80% are ‘difficult employees’. I wondered aloud what was his definition of a ‘difficult employee’. What he told me was interesting and forms the basis of this post.



“In every department/organization there are few… Continue

Recently an ex colleague of mine called to discuss his problems at work and the next steps he should take.



He did mention about the usual suspects like office politics, pink slips, bad management etc. and totally unsure about what he should do next, because his faith in the system was shaken!



As I interviewed him on his past track record, I realised that most of his decisions pertaining to studies and work have been influenced by others and not him. Parental actions,… Continue