[mavelikara]

> chat with other coworkers (non-work related stuff)

> ...

> Same outcome (for the company),

What if the company cares for those non-work stuff - for example, some of those chats being a mentoring conversation?

[Koshkin]

A mentoring conversation is actually (or should be seen as) work stuff.

[mavelikara]

The company does consider it so; the people involved might not.