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the corporate ritual of trapping coworkers in a room to feel things together, on purpose.
means organized activities meant to improve trust and cooperation among coworkers, ranging from genuinely useful to deeply cursed.
from emerged from 1950s-60s organizational psychology research on group dynamics, then got hijacked in the 80s corporate boom by consultants selling trust falls and rope courses.
trust fallsoriginated in theater and therapy, not business
billion dollar industrycorporate retreats now a massive global market
backfire riskforced fun often lowers morale, studies show