What’s So Bad about CC-ing the Boss?
Is CC-ing your boss a good idea? Could transparency in the workplace be bad? Getting Ethics to Work host Andy Cullison discusses the pitfalls of email on this episode.
What’s So Bad about CC-ing the Boss?
Overview & Shownotes
Could there be anything wrong with looping your boss into an email thread? Isn’t complete transparency a good thing? Our resident ethicist Andy Cullison and Getting Ethics to Work producer Kate Berry discuss a workplace dilemma in which an employee CCs his boss in an email exchange with a co-worker.
On this episode and every episode, we dig into complicated stories from the workplace and discuss the underlying moral problems these cases bring up.
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Shownotes
- “CC-ing the Boss on Email Makes Employees Feel Less Trusted” by David De Cremer
- More about David De Cremer
- Related articles:
- “Collaborative Overload” by Rob Cross, Reb Rebele and Adam Grant
- “The Passive-Aggressive Email Tactic That All Office Workers Abhor” by Alison Green
- What is “ethics”?
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