How ‘water-cooler chats’ improve business productivity
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Hearing the latest work gossip and dawdling around a water-cooler may seem like time wasting to an employer, however new economic research proves how informal chats can be beneficial to a business’ productivity. Drive’s host, Sidd Sharma talks to Associate Professor of Economics, Andrew Wait, about the the importance of workplace chat and other findings of his latest study.