Yet modern man engages in the sharing of tasks and in an extremely elaborate division of labour with strangers that is, with genetically unrelated members of his species.

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Along with sharing information about work tasks, blogging at work pulls employees closer to one another, builds relationships, and over time, increases productivity.

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Houston sees this new addition to Dropbox as yet another step toward making our digital lives flow more easily between the myriad of hardware and software combinations that make simple tasks, like sharing, a big headache.

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Failure to properly log off, unwittingly emailing a confidential document, using a thumb drive to bring work home, peer-to-peer file sharing, and other routine tasks that inadvertently create risks of exposing sensitive data to theft or misappropriation are not usually the results of malice.

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Were they fully merged--they remain distinctly separate despite sharing a chief executive and such tasks as purchasing, tech networks and some car chassis, engines and transmissions--the amalgam would be the fourth-largest carmaker on the planet.

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