If you’ve ever been to university and had a group assessment task, you’ve probably encountered the social loafer.​

You know who I mean: That person who is technically in the group, but if they weren’t it would make precisely zero practical difference to everyone else.​

The loafer will rock up to the occasional group meeting, smile and nod when people are discussing the task, and agree with everything being said. But when crunch time arrives, and the rest of you are frantically trying to put the last pieces of your assessment together, the social loafer is nowhere to be seen.

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