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

<table class="table-group" id="tab6"><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">Primary—professional (37 stories)</td><td class="align_center">Professional collaboration, vocational growth, business partnership, and career planning</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Secondary—social and personal (16 stories)</td><td class="align_center">Friendship, extended social networks, mentoring, useful information retrieval, self-improvement, graduation, and educational awards</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Categories of valuable outcomes identified in respondents’ stories.</div>

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Table 6: From Chance to Serendipity: Knowledge Workers’ Experiences of Serendipitous Social Encounters 