Question

Emotional sharing is very prominent in the workplace and a way for many individuals to meet their social needs. Why is this? People have no lives and work all the time. Sharing while working improves performance. People are emotionally unstable and bring that to work. The workplace is the primary source of social interaction for most people. People are lazy and just want to socialize at work.

Answer 1

Answer: The workplace is the primary source of social interaction for most people.

Explanation: Emotional sharing as to do with the tendency to to share emotional experience with others. Social sharing of emotions in the workplace is an interpersonal process in which individuals will initiate interpersonal behaviours in which discussing this event and their reactions to it is central. In other words, the social sharing of emotions is the process of reactivating the emotion at a more symbolic level, all taking place as part of ensuing interpersonal interactions.