Workplace communication — from efficient meetings to water-cooler small talk — can make or break an employee’s experience in the office. Geography, perhaps surprisingly, plays a role here: From the slower, stress-averse culture of southern regions to the passive-aggressive stereotypes of tech hubs and large northern cities, which locales are culturally set up for communication success?
Poor workplace communication has caused one in six Americans to quit a job, according to research from online language platform Preply. And 73% of employees would rather work through lunch rather than engage in mindless office small talk, according to the company’s survey, which asked full- and part-time workers across America to share insight and opinions on the way their office engages. Preply then analyzed those patterns by local community and ranked cities’ troubling miscommunication on a scale of 0-100.
