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Workplace harassment through systematic malicious gossip

🧭 worksocial problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 4/5

An employee reports that a coworker is systematically spreading false rumors and negative characterizations about them to other staff members after the reporter raised concerns about the coworker's disruptive behavior to management.

Who's affected: An office worker

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A digital documentation tool for employees to log dates, times, and witnesses of workplace harassment for HR records.
  2. A peer-to-peer mediation platform that facilitates neutral third-party conflict resolution in office settings.
  3. A corporate training module template focused on identifying and mitigating 'toxic office culture' and malicious gossip.
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Real voices

“It seems quite systematic — going from office to office and talking extensively about me.”

Source: Stack Exchange (workplace) · CC BY-SA 4.0, user-contributed content from Stack Exchange; summarized and modified

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