"watercooler effect" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2004, Barton Kunstler, The Hothouse Effect: Intensify Creativity in Your Organization Using Secrets from History’s Most Innovative Communities, AMACOM, page 39",
          "text": "One of his first acts established public wells so that the nobility could no longer control the peasants’ critical access to water; this also generated a so-called watercooler effect that inspired people to gather freely and schmooze.",
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          "ref": "2009, Kristyn Gorton, Media Audiences: Television, Meaning and Emotion, Edinburgh University Press, published 2013, page 151",
          "text": "Now programmes are lucky if they have a viewing figure reaching 8 million and this has changed both the parameters within drama and the way the industry measures what audiences think about a particular programme. It has also changed the notion of the ‘watercooler effect’.",
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          "ref": "2021 spring, Joel Mokyr, “The Great Fake”, in City Journal, archived from the original on 2023-05-29",
          "text": "Perhaps by organizing company retreats, firms can make up for some of the lost watercooler effects.",
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        "Alternative form of water cooler effect."
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  "word": "watercooler effect"
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          "ref": "2004, Barton Kunstler, The Hothouse Effect: Intensify Creativity in Your Organization Using Secrets from History’s Most Innovative Communities, AMACOM, page 39",
          "text": "One of his first acts established public wells so that the nobility could no longer control the peasants’ critical access to water; this also generated a so-called watercooler effect that inspired people to gather freely and schmooze.",
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          "text": "Now programmes are lucky if they have a viewing figure reaching 8 million and this has changed both the parameters within drama and the way the industry measures what audiences think about a particular programme. It has also changed the notion of the ‘watercooler effect’.",
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          "ref": "2021 spring, Joel Mokyr, “The Great Fake”, in City Journal, archived from the original on 2023-05-29",
          "text": "Perhaps by organizing company retreats, firms can make up for some of the lost watercooler effects.",
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