Curating the week in wellness Sep. 6–Sep. 10, 2021: Replicating watercooler serendipity, distilling DE&I data, and more
The week’s essential content and fresh industry pickings for those dedicated to employee well-being.
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1. Are serendipitous watercooler chats a thing of the past?
Why, exactly, are business leaders so eager to get everyone back into the office? Reasons vary, but many are driven by some variation of “recapturing the magic of spontaneous encounters and collaboration.” The New York Times dives into this theory, which does have some merit—though probably not as much as execs such as JP Morgan’s Jaime Dimon tend to believe. As he told shareholders recently, “Remote work virtually eliminates spontaneous learning and creativity because you don’t run into people at the coffee machine.”
But is this true, or just more of an assumption?
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