Anxiety about making a call has risen to the point where parents are ordering takeaways and making dental appointments for their highly-successful children.
From time to time, office life breeds a catchphrase that sounds deeply strange and yet makes sense as soon as someone says it. I came across one the other day: “desk-bombing”.
As a colleague at work explained, this is the act of approaching someone at their desk without warning, and talking to them. You are joking, I said. I am not, he replied.
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Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on modern corporate life, as well as features and other articles.
