Office tension I think proper tension is necessary and healthy for office. It is uneasy and stressful but necessary. I worked in a company which has a kind and happy atmosphere but wasn't productive. Employees were happy because they didn't work hard. If they were willing to work well, they would not be kind to each other. Why? Because someone who wants to work properly is skeptical. He probably has a lot of works to do because he works well. If he gets more job, even though he doesn't want, he would work well. He can work well but he doesn't want to have much that is obviously stressful so he should be unkind or rude to others not to get more jobs. If a company has a lot of that type of productive workers, there should be a lot of tensions because they are smart enough not to get many tasks to let them stressful. Employees in another company that I worked before were not kind to each other. There were some workers very rude and blunt and I couldn't understand how those workers were so many in this company. However, that company is very successful and prosperous now. Maybe kind and warm atmosphere in a company means staff are happy because of lack of works or jobs. If someone wants to work properly, he cannot be positive. Why? Real success is not based on fantasy or imagination. They should be skeptical to remove redundant and errors. So efficient workers are not positive. If they seem like positive, I think maybe they pretend positive because people want to get approval even though that is not realistic. Usually people don't like to hear negative comments about their opinion.