A colleague’s rudeness or uncivility can affect your sleep as well as your partner’s if they work with you, finds a new study.

‘When people face rude, discourteous colleagues at work, they tend to ruminate more about it at home. This also affects the spouse or partner’s sleep, only when the couple works in the same company or occupation.’

The study found that when a person experiences rude, discourteous, impolite colleagues at a workplace, they tend to ruminate more about work at home. 




They also face trouble falling asleep or may wake up in the middle of the night. This also affects the spouse or partner, only when the couple works in the same company or occupation, the researchers said.
It is "because work-linked couples have a better idea of what's going on in each other's work, they can be better supporters," said Charlotte Fritz, Associate Professor from the Portland State University in the US.
"They probably know more about the context of the uncivil act and might be more pulled into the venting or problem-solving process," she added, in the paper detailed in the journal Occupational Health Science.
While organizations do everything in their power to create a culture of civility by imposing zero-tolerance policies or offering civility training, uncivilities at the workplace are not completely avoidable.
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"They can talk about work, vent about it, discuss it, but then they should make an explicit attempt to unwind together and create good conditions for sleep," she noted.
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