"water-cooler effect" meaning in English

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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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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