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This study considers experienced immediate employees' negative workplace gossip as a social stressor and examines its spillover effect on the supervisor's family satisfaction. Based on the integration of the work-family interface model and boundary theory, our study investigates the influence of perceived subordinates' negative workplace gossip on the supervisor's family satisfaction through the mediation of the supervisor's Work-Family Conflict (WFC) and moderation Work-Home Segmentation Preferences (WHSP). The result from three waves (N = 326) reveals that immediate employees' negative workplace gossip is negatively related to supervisor family satisfaction, and the supervisor's WFC mediates this relationship. Additionally, WHSP mitigates the mediating effect of WFC between subordinates' negative workplace gossip and supervisor family satisfaction. The data hold while controlling the family role conflict, family role ambiguity, and general job stress. The theoretical and managerial implications of these findings and future research are discussed.