How do you deal with the "backseat managers?"
Most of our office is pretty collaborative. Coworkers are friendly and supportive of each other and they all do hard work.
But there's a couple that are constantly complaining about everyone else's work. They seem to think they work harder than everyone else and that rules need to shift to make things more "fair" when in reality they just don't know how to mind their own business.
For example, we have a 2 day work from home policy, with ability for more flexibility if you get management approval. We will approve more work from home for a variety of reasons - health needs, family needs, etc. Often the requests to work from home more than 2 days in a week involve private personnel information that are not everyone's business. But instead of acknowledging that someone might have gotten approval, these employees decide that if someone else is working from home more than 2 days in a week, they are either breaking the rules or subjects of favoritism (it's important to note nobody has ever gotten turned down from extra WAH days unless they are already behind on their deadlines, so it's very flexible and no favoritism involved).
When they complain, I remind them of the policy that extra days can be requested for multiple reasons and let them know that management can't discuss other employees' personnel information. They are super disatisfied with this response.
They also go around talking about how they are always working later than other employees (we're salaried with no overtime so long hours are not required) - the reality is they aren't as efficient at the work as others. More hours does not equal better work, and other employees are getting just as much done, just more efficiently.
They are always comparing themselves to others and complaining that office policies need to change to control others instead of just focusing on themselves.