Ghosting became a popular term around 2015, often used to describe a person who suddenly ends all communications without any notice. It’s been used around personal relationships and employment. Sometimes, it could happen in workplaces, too, especially with the work-from-home setup.
I’d like to believe that the work-from-home setup works when there is mutual trust: the employee gets the job done with less supervision while the employer makes sure that payment gets on time. And dependable employees strengthen that trust.
But it’s not always a happy ending.
Others, however, don’t care to be dependable in a work-from-home setup. Especially when distractions are everywhere, it’s easy to be sidetracked by everything else but the work one should do. And some, knowing that they did not deliver what has been tasked to them, resort to ghosting, hoping to avoid some consequences of their action or inaction.
And ghosting at the workplace undermines one’s credibility, leading to distrust.
jessa 