White lies in a Job: So often, we’re fibbing boss and colleagues

Small lies to get the friendship, it is said. For many people, this obviously applies also for the workplace. A survey of the job platform Glassdoor, under 1054 working on the topic of Cheat and lies in the Job suggests.

54 percent of the respondents are of the opinion: “Who pronounce on the work, honestly, what he thinks, gets in Trouble.” And almost every other right that “little white lies in the work of life is part of it.” Small lies do not mean here that the truth is slightly twisted, or glossed over, such as when you are promising the head high and Holy “I’m working on it”, although one way does the honest just really.

Such little white lies to use 45 percent of the respondents occasionally in the work life. 28 percent, to cheat even regularly such. Clearly verpönter gross falsehoods such as the claim that you have not even won the new large customers, although they don’t are against it. To have recourse to such big lies of 9 percent of the respondents occasionally.

In which Situation you have drawn on the work to tell a little white lie? And you have regretted it afterwards? Write to us at: leseraufruf@stern.de

Own faults and intolerant heads

Also according to the reasons for, large and small, lie was asked. The most common is a lie, therefore, their own failures, and to hide errors. But the corporate culture may be the Problem. The second most frequently mentioned reason is that “my boss does not accept different opinions”. Also in order to avoid sanctions, such as warning and dismissal or to gain benefits such as promotion and salary increase, engage Employees and to the untruth. Lie to harm other colleagues are looking, on the other hand, only very rarely.

Not too difficult, Employees should not take the results on the topic of lying in the workplace. Because: In the private sector, apparently, much more is fibbing. Life partners, best friends and siblings, according to the survey, all each more likely to be victims of our little falsehoods as the boss and the colleagues. Most often, the parents are being lied to, by the way:.