Office politics can be deadly. Now there are numbers to prove it.People who toiled alongside jerks, brown-nosers, blowhards and back-stabbers were 2.4 times more likely to die during a 20-year workplace study by Tel Aviv University.

A woman in New Zealand has been fired from her position as a financial controller for using "angry" fonts.

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Office politics will never go away. It's a fact of company life. However, destructive office politics can demoralize an organization, hamper productivity, and increase turnover. Here are some tips, applicable for both staff and management, on dealing with office politics.

At Work? [new group]

Whether you own or run a company or work for someone else, At Work is a catch-all forum for anything work-related, from office politics, humor and paydays, to very casual dress, really bad bosses and overpowering scents just over the cubicle wall.

As a columnist (which is fancy for "journalist in jammies"), I ought to personify the conventional wisdom that distance is dead: All I need to get my work done is a place to perch and a Wi-Fi signal.

Workplace dramas involving unreasonable bosses, aggressive colleagues and creeps who are always last to the bar all have their parallels in the animal kingdom, according to a study.

SHE'S one of the few remaining smokers in her office and some label her a time waster because of it, but Lucy says her colleagues waste more time on Facebook and MySpace.

The Invitation Game

Recently my wife was invited to a social gathering of about 15 coworkers that was being held at the home of a coworker. She agreed to come and then made absolutely no effort to actually attend. I felt compelled to ask her about it.

For many people going to work means traveling back to prehistoric times. Bosses, coworkers, and subordinates are sometimes territorial, impatient, illogical, controlling, and provocative. How to resolve office conflicts without losing your professionalism.

Master Of Our Own Destiny

The office has been quite challenging lately. The water cooler gossip has emerged to be a full scale cat fight. WHEN THE MOUNTAIN WILL NOT GO TO MUHAMMAD, MUHAMMAD WENT TO THE MOUNTAIN.

I've always considered myself to be a natural leader with a devotion to higher ideals.

Beware the Bus

While I can understand and accept that people who operate within a defined social circle tend to latch on to certain comfortable and familiar phrases, that doesn't mean I have to like it.