It can be uncomfortable to cross the Rubicon from professional to personal, but it’s usually well worth the effort.
in 2019 reported that almost half of us rate “practical and emotional support” as the benefit of workplace friendships.Totaljobs
“Almost every workplace friend is not someone we would have chosen out of a line-up,” Shasta says. “We chose them because we saw them regularly. We were paid to interact and the consistency happened. And then we bonded with the people we were seeing regularly, who we felt like we got to know and who left us feeling good.”
Too often, we are still encouraged to compete with one another, particularly in male-dominated environments when it can suit those in power to keep us down. Jealousy is one of the last taboos in female friendship. We’ve all felt it – that little lurch of envy when a pal tells you about her success. If you’ve made a lot of work friends over the years, it can be even tougher as you might share goals in the same industry.In an episode of my female friendship podcast, author and journalist Daisy Buchanan tells me that she envies the success of a work friend she met while freelancing early in her career.
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