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Watercooler features national and local celebrities in sports, news, and entertainment chatting about the day's top news on TV.
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But this time, it's more than idle watercooler talk, according to weather scientists.
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Consistent with the new design's focus on driving the conversation around television, ConnecTV showcases its "Watercooler" initiative launched over the summer.
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Royce analysts hit the streets and divine stock picks by watercooler conversation as well as at formal sales meetings, the president says.
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The SocialTV Timeline showcases TV and sports stars as well as Internet celebrities chatting with fans in real time as they watch their favorite shows and games or in ConnecTV's Watercooler.
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Another interesting item she found was that the amount of informal interaction (e.g. watercooler chats) between coworkers stayed about the same regardless of location : whether they were collocated, semi-collocated (in the same building but not close by), or distributed (working remotely).
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While common sense says that those who spend work hours popping out to the store for a new pair of shoes or surfing the Web for personal use probably cost employers something in lost productivity, there's no definitive proof that employee "downtime" is any more prevalent than it was a generation ago, when telephone and watercooler banter was in.
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