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Employees may think the solution to workplace conflict is to avoid it at all costs, but actually, the opposite is true.
Eighty-five percent of U.S. employees have experienced some level of conflict at work, according to data insights platform Gitnux. On average, employees spend 2.8 hours per week resolving disagreements, while managers spend roughly 15% of their time solving work conflicts. But conflict resolution doesn’t have to be a time suck if the right strategies are in place.
Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio
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