The Silent Treatment

<p>Joe from marketing enters the office and rushes past the new guy to greet his buddies with a happy slap on the back. Shelly from accounting, with her dearth of sporting enthusiasm, doesn&rsquo;t get invited to the fantasy hockey league. Mark finds Jake so intolerable that he outright ignores the guy. It all seems innocuous enough; these are the fabric of some seemingly unremarkable day-to-day office interactions. But while victims silently suffer this kind of ostracism, a physical and emotional toll builds.</p> <p>For University of Ottawa professor Jane O&rsquo;Reilly, these kind of behaviours need to be addressed to improve the lives and well-being of employees everywhere. &ldquo;When my research was published, a number of strangers reached out to me to offer their own personal stories of experiencing workplace ostracism,&rdquo; she tells me. &ldquo;I knew that ostracism is painful, but their stories gave me a striking sense of just how painful it is to experience.&rdquo;</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/your-workplace-magazine/the-silent-treatment-b853744bd17"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>