Two team members have stopped speaking to each other entirely
Anonymous HR Professional · 12 Jul 2026 · United Kingdom · Healthcare · 201-500 employees
It started as a disagreement about workload allocation and has become a silent standoff affecting the whole team. Their manager wants to move one of them to another shift.
Desired outcome
Whether to mediate first or separate them.
2 replies
Mediate first, and do it before the team picks sides. Moving someone rewards whoever escalated hardest and teaches everyone that silence gets results.
Separate meetings first to hear each account, then a joint session with a written agreement about specific behaviours, not attitudes. Review it in three weeks.
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