Many of your colleagues may envy you, but a new study says that toadying to the boss could be good for your health.
Researchers have found in the five-year study that staffers who ingratiate themselves into the boss's good books are actually less prone to bullying and the stress it brings, the 'Daily Express' reported.
Almost one third -- 29 per cent -- said colleagues deliberately left the room when they entered -- a form of psychological bullying.
For the study, the researchers from the US and Chinese universities surveyed 200 workers in China.
The results revealed that bullying by co-workers was "positively related" to stress and employees who sucked up to the boss "neutralised" the bullying.
The findings have been published in the 'Journal of Management Studies'.
