The study backs up the importance for employers to foster a culture of positivity at work, and also negates theories that we can be one person in the office, and another at home.

Social psychologist Ellen Langer, perhaps sums up the solution best, with her response to an 2014 interview question:

“All the different, distinctions that we make, we make them mindfully, and then we start to use them mindlessly, forgetting that when we’re at work, we’re people. We have the same needs we had when we were on vacation. That when we’re talking to people, the people we’re talking to also have the same needs.

“The idea I think to replace work/life balance, which treats these categories as independent, is work/life integration. And you should get to the point where you’re treating yourself, whether you’re at work or at play, in basically the same way.”

In other words; play nice, and if you’ve had a bad day talk about it.

If Lim’s study has revealed anything, it's that internalising workplace hostility doesn’t have any positive payoff. Especially when it affects those you love.

Dislike your colleagues? It might be ruining your relationship