Ever have one of those bosses who guides the team back to business a minute and thirty seconds into goofing off? From the boss’s perspective, he’s paying a lot of money for a whole roomful of employees to have a chuckle, a chuckle they could just save for after work. It’s like an extra paid break and that’s just not fair, right? But from the employee’s perspective, the time they spend at work is nearly half of their waking lives and the expectation to work seriously the whole time, leave friendships outside the office, and only look up from work once per day at lunch is the fast track to burn out.
So who is right? The boss who has to pay for his employees to have fun with each other? Or the employee who succumbs to his human desire to laugh, play, and banter?
In the grand scheme of…