Do you put your emotions aside at work?

Crying after a bitter exchange with a co-worker, getting angry at a superior who treated you poorly, expressing your pain at the prospect of a reassignment…Emotions are rarely well-understood in the professional world. “Expressing them can make you look weak, less professional, less trustworthy, in the eyes of colleagues, writes sociologist, book author Oreli Jeantet emotions at work (CNRS). Those who express their feelings about the group in a dissonant or deviant manner may be punished by being cast aside. Distrust, which is also more vigorously enforced “good women”. Meanwhile, some companies tout emotional intelligence, a mental skill defined by psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer in 1990. It consists of perceiving, recognizing, understanding and using one’s own and others’ emotional states. “To solve problems and regulate behavior…