But there are a few not-so-obvious workplace mistakes that can also get you canned just as quickly, like having a bad attitude.
"In the 1990s, we were hit by a squall of sexism, and the situation became much more obvious with workplace discrimination, the dominance of household murders and violence against women, prostitution, a lack of access to protection," Plungian says.
"Extracurricular gatherings might be the best way to hear specifics about industry changes that could be affecting your career even if it isn't obvious at your workplace," he suggested.
That was true long before the advent of the cellphone and is even more obvious in the movable workplace that is the 24/7 office of the 21st century.
Liberating women to have babies when they liked simply took much less time than liberating women to claim equality in the workplace, for obvious reasons.
Of course, this is the kind of skill you probably only want to add to your home device, not one in a shared environment or workplace, for obvious reasons.
These include the very obvious: make sure the workplace is safe and that staffing levels are appropriate, and pay people a fair wage.
This study created a digital building construction site, and designed a hazard-identification experiment involving four workplaces featuring obvious and unobvious hazards (e.g., falls, collapses, and electric shocks), and an eye-tracker was used to compare the search patterns of the experienced and novice workers.
But more to the point, it ignores an obvious truth: A real-life workplace is never as interesting as a fictional one.
We decided to do a sitcom set in a workplace and the obvious choice was a TV newsroom: colourful, interesting, lots of things happening, and, if we were clever about the way we filmed it, we could make it really up-to-date.
