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This Office Has a Bar -- But Staff Don't Go There Just to DrinkCasual collaboration spots boost office creativity.

ByJared Keller

This story appears in theMarch 2017issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »

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It's 10 a.m. on a Wednesday atDiageo,一个world's largest producers of spirits (and owner of brands such as Johnnie Walker, Captain Morgan, Guinness and Smirnoff). Dozens of its 150 Manhattan-based employees are clustered around the office bar, adjacent to the entrance of the company's 56,000-square-foot office. But they're not here to drink -- even people who work for booze companies have their limits. (Alcohol is primarily served at night during events and employeehappy hours.) Instead, by day, the bar becomes a casual meeting point.

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