At a lot of American companies, this is the first time colleagues have had to come to terms with working and socializing almost entirely online. “At the beginning of the pandemic, everyone patted themselves on their back, like: ‘Oh, look, productivity has not fallen. “Now the reality of that has hit.”When message boards, chat rooms and Facebook become work tools, off-color humor is more common. Harassment from colleagues in internal messaging platforms is not new, he added, but now there is more of it. These new work tools were designed to look and feel like message boards and social media.

Source: New York Times January 24, 2021 20:03 UTC