Being in the workplace

What happens in a workplace can vary a lot. Even within the same organisation departments may operate in different ways and have different expectations of staff.

It can help to have some background in the social rules, culture and processes that are often found in workplaces

Workplace etiquette and unwritten rules of behaviour

Workplace etiquette is not often spoken about until someone has breached an unwritten rule. To make it more complicated still, rules vary from office to office, and even from one work area to another within the same company.

Workplace etiquette refers to the way people behave at wo