It's all your colleague's fault

Open the door on Pilotenstraat and you walk into a grand open space, with fresh white desks arranged in cozy blocks, silver desk lamps, large (filled) candy jars, and fragrant candles. You first encounter our cooking heroes from FavorFlav then the big sisters from Franska.co.uk and then you meet the Amayzers. Sometimes the term chicken coop comes up and I find that very disrespectful. We chatty projectiles just have so much to tell each other.

My presentation about our office inventory will definitely lead to something, don't worry. Research from Harvard indicates that your productivity at work has everything to do with the colleague sitting next to you. The researchers have also shown that it’s better if this is a colleague who has a different mentality. Oh-ooooh, twinning is not winning here at all. Nice to have a buddy next to you, apparently not helpful.

 
Roughly divide your colleagues into three groups. In group 1, put the overzealous productive types, group 2 is filled with people who work effectively, and in group 3 come the colleagues who deliver high-quality work but tend to do it more mañana. Yes, you guessed it: if you put two of the same kind together, it all becomes way too cozy, which doesn’t do performance any good. If the colleague next to you is productive, then it might just be that you also deliver ten percent better. Wow.

 
I find this research hilarious. Guess who slides into my block every morning. Right, May. Basically, those folks from Harvard are saying that if I take it a bit easier, that’s the fault of… Ha-ha-ha. A little disclaimer though: if anyone is productive, it’s May. Also good news, because then I’m set.

 
Oh by the way, you better stay away from the bullies in the workplace, because the chance of dismissal increases by 27 percent. Whether you participate in those antics or not.
 

Source: Radio 538