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slash Wall Street. Here's your money briefing for Monday June 24th. I'm

Adiana Sbru for the Wall Street Journal, filling in for J.R. Waylan.

You know the type? The coworker that spends most of their day chatting up the boss, cracking jokes, and making

the rounds in the office without worrying about getting their actual work done.

These employees are being called personality hires and their dazzling

people skills might actually be the secret to their success in the workplace.

Managers consistently tell me that it's harder to promote camaraderie in the hybrid work environment that so many of us are in right now.

You just don't have as much face time.

So if they can find somebody who they believe is going to lift the collective mood in the office,

maybe rub off in a positive way on their coworkers, that's somebody they're really

attracted to. We'll talk to Wall Street Journal columnist Calum Borures, after the break. The Capital Ideas Podcast now has a new monthly edition hosted by Capital Group CEO Mike

Getland. Investment professionals reveal their best mentors, how they find their next great

idea, and a few funny stories

subscribe wherever you get your podcast American Funds Distributors Inc. Are you're popular and well liked at work? Does it come at the expense of your

productivity? Well, you might be the personality hire. W.S.J. columnist Kalam, how would you describe a personality hire?

Well, a personality hire may have more charm than skill, Ariana.

It doesn't mean they don't know what they're doing at all, but they're there to kind of, you know, be the glue that brings the team together, maybe makes a little bit more fun to be at work these days.

And they're sort of in demand right now,

honestly, because the workplaces are pretty darn cranky right now

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