I've made many good friends at my various places of employment, but I've also had work 'friends' that I never saw again when I left the company. Navigating the murky waters of what to share and how to behave is hard and takes a while.
Organizations that tell their employees 'we are all one big happy family' and expect long and unpaid hours are doing their employees a disservice. When the employee expects to be rewarded for all their long hours and to be treated like family when they are sick (e.g. paid sick leave) they are going to be very disappointed.
Most people won't take the 'family' message literally, but in some small companies, there is a chance that some will.
Thanks Wendy. Mark here. Yes I have also made lifelong friends at work ... and also had work friends that I never saw again after leaving. I'd forgotten about that phenomenon of those relationships that can see so close in the context of the workplace but don't survive beyond it.
I've made many good friends at my various places of employment, but I've also had work 'friends' that I never saw again when I left the company. Navigating the murky waters of what to share and how to behave is hard and takes a while.
Organizations that tell their employees 'we are all one big happy family' and expect long and unpaid hours are doing their employees a disservice. When the employee expects to be rewarded for all their long hours and to be treated like family when they are sick (e.g. paid sick leave) they are going to be very disappointed.
Most people won't take the 'family' message literally, but in some small companies, there is a chance that some will.
Thanks Wendy. Mark here. Yes I have also made lifelong friends at work ... and also had work friends that I never saw again after leaving. I'd forgotten about that phenomenon of those relationships that can see so close in the context of the workplace but don't survive beyond it.