From Chance to Serendipity: Knowledge Workers’ Experiences of Serendipitous Social Encounters

<table class="table-group" id="tab4"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Category</td><td class="align_center">Examples from the stories</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Revealed commonalities (33 stories)</td><td class="align_center">Job fields, professional and personal interests, hobbies, life goals, work styles, shared social ties, education fields, and life experiences</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Revealed complementarities (17 stories)</td><td class="align_center">Complementary professional skills and needs, different backgrounds and viewpoints</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Categories of the connection phase identified in the respondents’ stories.</div>

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Table 4: From Chance to Serendipity: Knowledge Workers’ Experiences of Serendipitous Social Encounters 