office communication
Professional internal messaging
Office communication encompasses the exchange of information within a workplace—emails, memos, meetings, and informal conversation.
The term often appears in discussions of workplace efficiency or dysfunction: We need to improve our office communication.
It includes both formal channels like company-wide announcements and informal ones like watercooler talk.
Good office communication is clear, timely, and reaches the right people.
- team dynamicsHow members relate collectively
- meeting inviteRequest to attend scheduled event
- teleconferencingRemote multi-party communication
- corporate cultureShared workplace values, norms
- instant messagingLive online text communication
empathetic listening · public speaking · town hall meeting · fax machines · whiteboards · brainstorming sessions · leadership styles · hierarchical structures · smartphones · printers · desktop computers · email etiquette · reply all · paper trail · Slack · memo · voicemail · video conferencing
office communicationcasual conversation
Informal spoken exchange
pillow talk · private correspondence · locker room talk · small talk · heart-to-heart
office communicationsilence
Total lack of sound
isolation · radio silence · incommunicado · off-the-grid · disconnection
office communicationradio silence
Absence of broadcast communication
stonewalling · secrecy · information blackout · noncommunication · the silent treatment
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