Nightly News   |  December 07, 2012

Can office gossip be useful?

Dutch psychologists say office gossip can have positive effects, such as pressuring underperformers to do more. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.

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>>> and new research by a dutch psychologist says that office gossip works in the work place, it can pressure under-performers, protect the core group and it is after all a group activity. i had heard a couple of people talking about this in our news room today, and i heard they felt okay with it, that it would be so like these people to say