——“water cooler expert” -——
Although I have been “retired” for a long time, I have occasion to visit corporate offices where people are busily at their computers. Many if not most now days have two monitors.
Water coolers are dusty, unused, and certainly no longer a place for conversation.
Water bottles are the norm
At one large office I visit, the conversation place now is the very large wireless printer. Everybody prints documents there and then when somebody prints 20 copies of a 10 page document, a back log of workers lined up to fetch their document ensues.
That makes sense. I never worked in the corporate world. I stated working for myself at 26 and still do today at 72. Except it’s much easier now, I just push buttons like your corporate types at their computers.