Communication is key. In the workplace, lack of communication causes the parties to fill in the gaps with a story of their own, based on assumptions sometimes along the lines of “They must hate me and are trying to sabotage my career.” Being ghosted (an apropos term derived from staring at the three dots on your mobile phone as you await a text answer) is the digital trend of our times. It used to be harder to avoid dealing with someone but with everything from Instagram to Slack to email to texting to the good old phone call, there are multiple varieties of ghosting available to us now. Lack of communication probably induces the highest state of paranoia. We are always afraid of the unknown.