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The only thing worse than networking...not networking
Recent Glassdoor data from the US shows that over half of workers (53%) prefer not to make friends with colleagues, keeping their personal and professional lives separate.
Your colleagues don’t want to know you
Team dinners with empty chairs.
Horror at the very idea of Friday night drinks.
Why is it so hard to get colleagues to show up, even when they’ve said they will?!
Solve work loneliness
Work in the 90s and early 2000s, meant hours of time together, dealing with everything from the hilarious to illegal, via a sushi-hurling boss and a creative who overtook his “sleeping meds” at Heathrow.