Workplace complaining harms staff's brains

Evidently, workplace griping isn’t just bad for morale.  It actually impairs your staff’s brain function.

According to Trevor Blake, author of “Three Simple Steps:  A Map to Success in Business and Life”, neuroscientists have learned that people who spend too long listening to someone being negative are apt to behave in the same way.  Additionally, people exposed to 30 minutes or more of negativity lose neurons in their hippocampus, the part of the brain used for problem-solving.

http://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/listening-to-complainers-is-bad-for-your-brain.html