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What You Can Do If You Have a Gossiping Boss

Harvard Business Review

Access to gossip confers social status — we feel we are part of a privileged group who’s “in the know.” Because we crave the illusory status and credibility gossip carries, we have an incentive to endow it with greater credibility. Gossip reflects just as negatively on the receiver as it does on the provider.