water-cooler effect

plural water-cooler effects

1. alternativeAlternative form of water cooler effect.

   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.

   2022 August 21, “The future is coming together at MGKF”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 194th year, number 82, page 37, column 1

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   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.

   2011 May 11, Legislative Proposals to Address the Negative Consequences of the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Provisions: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises of the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, First Session (Serial No. 112-29), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 15

   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.

   2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2023