Meaning of water-cooler effect | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“A whistleblower will inevitably become distant from friends and colleagues. And these water-cooler effects, the social effects, I think, can provide a strong disincentive, a disincentive which bounty programs are meant to overcome.”

“This improvised way of coming together helped employees shoot the breeze from a safe distance and enjoy a bit of that water-cooler effect everyone was starting to miss.”

“The Super Bowl, the biggest TV show of the year, became a secular holiday gathering that rivals Christmas. And before the work-from-home era, networks were conscious of the “water-cooler effect” in offices.”

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