Talking about politics with others or voicing your political views in public is a commonplace aspect of everyday life. In particular, after the U.S. presidential election in 2020, media sources highlighted the detrimental effects of political conversation at work on employee well-being and morale. Nevertheless, little academic research has sought to examine political interactions at work and their effects on employees' well-being and work outcomes. Integrating the concept of self-regulation with the coping model of stress, in this study we examine the costs of political conversations initiated by either supervisors or coworkers for employees' helping and withdrawal behaviors. We used an experience sampling method to collect two weekly surveys from 166 full-time workers from South Korea for 6 weeks (n = 823). Our multilevel path analysis found that during weeks when employees had more political conversations at work, they had higher levels of resource depletion, which in turn was linked to fewer helping behaviors and more withdrawal behaviors. Importantly, individuals' geographic region and political identity management (i.e., their preferences for openly talking about their political identity) moderated the indirect effects of political conversations on behavioral outcomes via increased resource depletion.

与他人谈论政治或在公共场合表达自己的政治观点是日常生活中司空见惯的一个方面。特别是，在 2020 年美国总统大选之后，媒体消息人士强调了工作中的政治对话对员工福祉和士气的不利影响。然而，很少有学术研究试图检查工作中的政治互动及其对员工福祉和工作成果的影响。将自我调节的概念与压力应对模型相结合，在本研究中，我们研究了主管或同事发起的政治对话对员工帮助和退缩行为的成本。我们使用经验抽样方法从韩国的 166 名全职工人中收集了为期 6 周（n = 823)。我们的多层次路径分析发现，在员工在工作中进行更多政治对话的几周内，他们的资源消耗程度更高，这反过来与更少的帮助行为和更多的退缩行为有关。重要的是，个人的地理区域和政治身份管理（即他们对公开谈论其政治身份的偏好）通过增加资源消耗来缓和政治对话对行为结果的间接影响。