If you have step foot into any office before then you are probably familiar with the phrase “the buzz around the water cooler” or “water cooler talk,” which is a casual way of referring to office gossip. It’s been in the movies, cartoons and skits over the decades that the water cooler has been a place for gossip or side office conversations. Some of the conversation was or is casual, something as simple as “Hi” or “How was your evening?” Other conversations were longer, more in-depth, exclusive and “hear-say” about local news, politics, co-workers or about the talk-of-the-town.