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There are many benefits to participating in extracurricular activities with colleagues

Sarah Jenkinson, an organic chemistry lecturer at the University of Oxford, UK, was asked to start a departmental choir in 2012, soon after Gareth Malone’s TV series The Choir: Sing While You Work first aired. The show highlighted the benefits of creating a staff choir to bring people together across an organisation. The Oxford department of chemistry choir – Keytones – is still thriving today.