Companies need it. Without it they can't innovate, build consensus or go to market. Markets need it. Cultures need it. Without play and knowledge in equal measure, they begin to die.
People get gloomy, anxious and depressed.
Eventually, the guns come out. Unfortunately, there's also a metaphorical firewall separating these conversations, and that wall is the traditional conservative fearful corporation. Cordon off the area. Set up barricades. Cripple the tanks.