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Craft and StructureMediumTwo views on office small talk

Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 Add up the hallway chatter, the weather talk, the weekend recaps, and the average office loses hours of paid time weekly to conversation with no work content at all. Text 2 Teams that know each other's weekends ask each other's help more readily. The 'no work content' minutes are when colleagues become people to one another — an investment that pays out precisely when a deadline requires favors.

Which choice best describes the relationship between the texts?

  1. A. Text 2 reframes as useful the behavior Text 1 treats as wasted time.Correct
  2. B. Both texts recommend eliminating meetings.
  3. C. Text 2 provides data that confirm Text 1's main claim.
  4. D. Text 1 discusses remote work, while Text 2 discusses only in-person offices.

Answer: A. Text 2 reframes as useful the behavior Text 1 treats as wasted time.

Text 1 tallies small talk as lost productivity; Text 2 recasts the same minutes as the maintenance of trust that later collaboration draws on.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. Both texts recommend eliminating meetings.
Meetings are not the subject of either text.
C. Text 2 provides data that confirm Text 1's main claim.
Text 2's evidence cuts against Text 1's claim, not for it.
D. Text 1 discusses remote work, while Text 2 discusses only in-person offices.
Neither text limits itself to remote or in-person settings.

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