Office Confidential: Keeping Secrets At Work Can Be A Lonely Job - Forbes India

Office Confidential: Keeping Secrets At Work Can Be A Lonely Job - Forbes India

Organizational secret-keeping is different from holding on to a personal or family secret. It isn’t a choice — it’s a requirement imposed by a superior. Image: Shutterstock[/CAPTION]A hush has fallen over the workplace. At tech startups and banks, in doctors’ offices and law firms, workers are increasingly being asked to keep secrets. These aren’t personal confidences but organizational secrets about clients, proprietary technologies, or busines…