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I wonder if this could be a way for companies to figure out (surreptitiously) how managers are doing

You can get a gut feeling by examining the coffee mess.

If you find that people are leaving less than one cup or less in the bottom of the pot, and it's not yet lunch, that's a sign you've got morale problems.

Happy people make more coffee for their peers. Unhappy people take a cup for themselves and let someone else do it.



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