Article: When office politics creates a minefield; Stress, long hours and low morale have led to managers playing divide and conquer and staff being forced to take sides. Nic Paton reports on the minefield of office politics ;The Office.

Byline: NIC PATON

LONDONERS spend an hour a day caught up in office politics, as bitchy emails, power struggles and even outright violence are increasingly turning workplaces into battlegrounds. The bill in wasted time and effort as workers fight among themselves is an astonishing pound sterling 7.8 billion, according to estimates by jobs' website reed.co.uk.

The threat of redundancy, increasing stress and longer hours are all combining to make destructive office politics ever more common, say experts.

Of 1,600 temporary workers polled by reed.co.uk, one in four say they have experienced office politics in every temporary job they have done. ...

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