Why you’re happier if you make friends at work
telegraph.co.ukfriends at work is, when you think about it, deeply weird. You’re essentially being paid to pass hours on end with people you’d never have chosen to see more of than your own loved ones.We spend anywhere between a quarter and a third of our adult lives at work, sitting beside – or interacting virtually with – our colleagues.
They have a major impact on how we do our jobs and how we feel about them. Looking around the office now, I am surrounded by the people who dominate my daily life: co-workers I share tea runs, jokes and Colin the Caterpillar cakes with.
Women I chat to in the loos. And yet, at any moment, wherever you work, those very people might be going for the same promotion, project or pay rise as you.
Little wonder that many of us are dubious about whether we should attempt to make friends at work. It can be uncomfortable to cross the rubicon from professional to personal.
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