How can you stop members of the office whispering in corners?
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Coming from my own experience, I would just tell the people that are slagging off the other people that it bothers you and ask them to please refrain from talking badly about others in front of you. If they know about how you feel, then hopefully they'll stop. Also mention to them that it's disruptive and does nothing for company morale. Good luck. :)
Move to a round office.
Put some highly sensitive microphones in the corner and plug them into a 400 watt amplifier. That'll stop 'em.
you cant! give them something postitive to say rather than idle gossip!
Build a round office.
Put filing cabinets in all the corners. The whisperers will avoid them like the plague!
Poke them with a pointy stick every time they go to do it!
Dim the lights in the office....then do a Blair Witch project on them and stand there facing the corner.
When they run to the corner for a gossip start muttering to yourself and rocking back and forth..
That'll get em!
You can't, its a fact of life and its always going to happen!
That happens in my office. So rude.
One of my colleagues had a go at the people doing it, but that didn't work.
I go really quiet and stop typing so there's no other noise in the office and try and hear what they're saying. I actually couldn't care less what they are saying, but they obviously don't want me to hear, because that makes them stop.
install a few microphones that picks up what people are saying and plays it loud if they go near it.lol watch them move then.strict policy's about worker's standing around instead of working like they should be.or just whip-em.
Staple there lips together.
Direct them to have their "discussions" in their own offices, so it won't disturb others who are working
Don't even go there. You sound like you need a break. Pack your bag and get away this weekend at least. Or get another job, You could be cracking up. Have a check up at the doctors, Please take care of yourself. Your mental health is important.
It doesn't matter whether they're talking about you or someting that's got nothing to do with you - whispering is plain rude. If you have it in you, tell them to stop or save it for a more private situation. If not, tell your boss that it's creating a bad atmosphere and you want it to end. There are two grown women in my office who do it and I think it's immature and totally unacceptable. Don't stand for it.
Let them whisper, I wouldn't give them the pleasure of reacting to it just as I wouldn't to 7 year olds doing it in the playground.
I learnt a long time ago that you can never stop or control any one elses actions, and do not let anyone control your mood.
Simply rise above it and do not add fuel to their boring lives for them to gossip with, and do not let them turn you paranoid.
Concentrate on you and you alone!
Don't let them find gossip to chat about regarding you. Keep yourself to yourself and stop telling them stuff about you, think of it this way you must be popular if thats all they talk about, they must be jealous of you and if they are talking about you at least they are leaving some other poor buggar alone. Let them talk at the end of the day they must have shallow lives.
I like Wafflebox's answer - I'd ask all the non-gossipers to stop working and listen in to the gossipers (they'd go into the toilets then) - or like some of the others say, I'd get a small recording device and record what they say - meet at lunch with a non-gossiper and have a laugh!
take the chairs out the corners...... Seriously, feck them! They are obviously envious of something......
make loads of noise
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