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ARTICLE · 19 SEPTEMBER 2022

Lessons From Selling Sunset, Part Two: Workplace Gossip

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It's time for the second instalment in our three-part series on employment law lessons learned from watching Netflix's Selling Sunset. As always, there are spoilers ahead, so proceed with caution.

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It's time for the second instalment in our three-part series on employment law lessons learned from watching Netflix's Selling Sunset. As always, there are spoilers ahead, so proceed with caution.

Selling Sunset

If you are new to this series of articles, we are thoughtfully extracting employment law lessons from the fan-favourite reality TV program, Selling Sunset. The show follows some of L.A'.s most successful women realtors, as they compete with the cutthroat L.A. market and each other.

Workplace gossip: Takeaways

It is no surprise that drama abounds in a televised program featuring an inherently competitive workplace. Much of the most notorious pot-stirring takes the form of savage office gossip. The problem with office gossip is that it tends to leak out and cause interpersonal conflicts among co­workers.

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