Van Edwards: Study showed police with ambivalent coworkers take more sick days
Vanessa Van Edwards · Communication Expert: Master the Secret Art of Charisma & Influence | Vanessa Van Edwards · Sep 17, 2024 · at 40:11
Vanessa Van Edwards cites behavioral research on a police precinct to argue the hidden damage of ambivalent coworker relationships.
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“There's a study about this, so they did it with police officers, and they categorized everyone's relationships in this precinct, and they found that the officers who had more ambivalent relationships, like relationships with the coworkers, where they were like, shh, do I want to go to lunch with them, or would I rather eat a sandwich alone? Ambivalent, the more ambivalent relationships they had, the worse their happiness was, the more sick days they took, the lower their workplace satisfaction. Actually, police officers who had more toxic co-workers were totally okay because they knew, that's not my person.”
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