'It's essential' | 'Desk bombing' - a real HR concern or overhyped buzz phrase?

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Such has been the complexity of HR’s most pressing situations over the past couple of years, that LinkedIn’s connoisseurs have been clamouring over themselves to coin catchphrases and buzzwords that easily sum up the issue of the day.

And now, a term is fuelling a debate about office etiquette and the way colleagues communicate face-to-face in a post-lockdown world... desk bombing.

The phrase was thrust into the spotlight recently thanks to a Financial Times feature. A riff on the common phrase ‘photo bombing’, it refers to a colleague’s sudden appearance at one’s desk for an unscheduled conversation.