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The world needs more ‘desk-bombers’

By Pilita Clark

16 Oct 2022 · 3 min read

Editor's Note

Why talk to your colleagues in person when you could just message them on Slack? The FT reports on the shifting mores around randomly stopping by your colleagues’ desks, aka “desk-bombing.”

From time to time, office life breeds a catchphrase that sounds deeply strange and yet makes sense as soon as someone says it.

I came across one the other day: “desk-bombing”.

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