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When Transparency Backfires, and How to Prevent It

Harvard Business Review

That in turn hurt morale and left employees feeling mistrustful. A trend also emerged that organizations where colleagues almost never cc’ed others were the least distrustful. The idea is that giving the other party complete information about your interests makes that other party responsible for policing your behavior.

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Dating the boss, crossing an invisible line?

HR Digest

The problem is that office romance doesn’t sit well with human resources, especially when you’re hooking up with someone within your chain of command. There are also multiple possibilities of potential conflicts of interest that can be hard to resolve. Your affair could be fodder for office gossip.