Why workplace friendship can boost business performance

For many professionals, workplace friendships can quietly transform the experience of coming to work each day, making a difference between work that feels energising and work that feels isolating.

According to a survey on workplace friendships 57 per cent of respondents report that having a friend at work made their job more enjoyable. Dr Jason Walker, a psychology professor at Adler University in Chicago, explains that people with friends at work are happier and more productive.

As an added bonus, "it decreases employee turnover,” he says. “Employees with friends are less likely to leave a job.”

This marks a shift in the popular understanding of the role of friendship in the workplace, as the idea that coworkers are competitors rather than companions has become increasingly outdated.

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