Should companies try to eliminate grapevine communication? Explain your answer.

Research suggests that companies should not try to eliminate grapevine communication.One reason is that they could not eliminate the grapevine if they tried.Moreover, attempts to eliminate the grapevine might further strain relations with employees.At the same time, the grapevine should not be viewed as a primary source of communication.It can be fairly accurate, but it may distort actual events by deleting some details.
Rather than eliminating the grapevine, companies should treat the grapevine as a signal of employee anxiety and act on the causes of that anxiety.Companies should also use the grapevine as a benchmark of the effectiveness of formal communication.They should try to reduce the need for grapevine communication by providing more effective formal methods of organizational communication.