hey guys Serg here and today we're gonna do a video about should you become
friends with your coworkers hey guys ECR g here and today we're gonna talk
about should you become friends with your coworkers
now this is a bit of an inevitable thing that's gonna happen the longer you work
at a place the more likely you're going to become friends with these people just
because you're around them every day you're going to be working with them on
the daily basis you're pretty much gonna be spending more time with them than you
are you know your own friends and even your family sometimes so it's almost
inevitable that you're at least gonna have a pretty cordial friendship with
them sometimes they may even cross the line to being real friends and just
because you're spending so much time with these people you're you might end
up being friends with these people it's and it's it is likely now depending on
whose perspective you're looking at from it can be it will be you know they have
varying interest on whether you should be friends with your coworkers or not it
also depends on the job too but if you work in a field like Clinical Research
where as you climb the ladder you know in your entry-level job you're pretty
much gonna be in the office all the time but if you move up a little bit to say a
year later or so you're gonna have more and more time available to work from
home or remotely you know you may even be traveling and on the road a lot so
you may not be as closely involved with the with the your co-workers as you once
were in the entry-level position so that could definitely have an effect on your
friend your friends with your coworkers so I think I think you should become
friends with your coworkers because it's gonna help the business of the company
it's gonna help you perform better you're gonna enjoy coming to work a lot
more because you know you're going to work with your friend who doesn't want
that and you're gonna have an overall higher
level of happy this because you're spending so much
time at work and you're gonna be a lot happier at work because you're working
with your friends so I think it's a little bit inevitable that that's gonna
happen and I think companies want that to happen they encourage that to happen
because if you're already working with your friends it's gonna be a lot harder
for you to leave even if you know you can make a whole lot more money
elsewhere you know getting a bonus sign-on bonus
or something like that it's made a lot harder for you to leave
that job if you're working with their friends every day so I think from that
perspective companies definitely want you to be friends with the people and
you can tell that they want this and they encourage this by all the events
they try and have you know free free lunches here you know bringing in food
truck Friday or something like that you know encourage you to go out for lunch
with these people and really meet these people and get to know them a little bit
better you know whatever whatever it is that your company does their own
guaranteeing you they do something to try and you know bring people together
and really make friends out of people you know that's one of the things that
my line manager was asking about when I was first getting hired was if I was
making friends with people in the office and I don't know if you know it comes
down from the top you know if they keep asking people and
they want you to ask you know you're your new employees that work under you
if they're making friends but that's something that she kept asking and how
how it was acclimating how it was doing in the office environment and you know
that that was obviously something that the company I was working for was keen
on because they were asking about it but you know every company is gonna be
different and you know I haven't seen where companies discourage you from
making friends in the office cuz I think it's just better and overall affects
their bottom line a little bit better if that's the case but also in in clinical
research there's also obstacles to making friends
with people too like I mentioned before as you tend to
grow up go up in the chain you tend to work more remotely to work from home or
you might travel a lot more or your teams that you work with are gonna be
more global even so the people that you work closely with aren't even going to
be in the office they're gonna be time zones away you know you're only gonna
have but a few hours a day of overlap and you know those relationships just
aren't gonna be as strong because you know you're only talking to them but so
many times you're gonna be talking with them mostly through email and instant
message and not the face-to-face in the office interaction that you're used to
having with the people when you're in the office but also on the flip side of
that if you are traveling and you know doing things where you're meeting with
people for a week those relationships do have a chance to blossom and you will
have the opportunity to be friends with those people if you're if you're
traveling from place to place and you're you know meeting the same people over
and over etc etc so there's gonna be opportunities on both sides but
ultimately I think you know becoming friends with your coworkers at least
partially is is inevitable and you know the longer you work at a place the more
and more likely you're you're gonna be friends with these people so that's
pretty much all I had to say about that guys if you enjoyed this video go ahead
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