Saturday, September 15, 2007

Office etiquette 'degenerating'


* Workplace behaviour getting worse
* Generation Y amongst worst offenders


Impersonal emails, bitching about workmates, poor phone manners and dressing inappropriately are some of the sins we commit every day in the office.

And Gen Y workers are the worst offenders.

That’s the opinion of two of Australia’s leading business etiquette experts, June Dally-Watkins, who runs the Business Finishing College in Sydney, and Tracey Hodgkins of the Australian Experiential Learning Centre in Perth.

“A lot of people have no idea about good manners and correct behaviour in the workplace because no one has taught them,” Ms Dally-Watkins, 80, told NEWS.com.au.

See full Article.