{"id":17442,"date":"2015-08-13T21:49:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T21:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.power2improve.com\/?p=17442"},"modified":"2017-06-15T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T07:52:03","slug":"why-friends-at-the-office-sevenfold-you-career-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.power2improve.com\/en\/blog\/2015\/08\/13\/why-friends-at-the-office-sevenfold-you-career-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Why friends at the office sevenfold your career opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having a\u00a0best friend in the office, helps to be engaged, committed and involved. And to provide top performance. A nice chat, laugh, relaxing moment or talk in the coffee corner is not only pleasant. It is also very important. It increases your career opportunities 7x times.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Having a nice chat, laugh, relaxing moment or talk in the coffee corner is important at work.<\/p><\/div>\n

Always thought that at work you first en foremost had to… work? That your boss does not pay you to drink coffee with your friends? That talking, laughing and having a relaxing moment together\u00a0is\u00a0something that you should do in your own time? Then we have good news for you!<\/p>\n

Not just\u00a0you, but your boss also wins if you have friends at work, as proven\u00a0by calculations by research and consulting firm Gallup<\/a>. Companionship at\u00a0the office helps increase\u00a0employee satisfaction with 50 percent. Moreover, people who have a best friend at work are 7x more likely to be fully engaged. Engaged\u00a0employees are in the perfect position to deliver top performance. Their work energizes them and they are committed to getting the best out of themselves. Obviously that benefits their career opportunities. The engaged\u00a0are 18 percent more productive<\/a> and 30 percent less absent<\/a>. Over one third (37 percent)<\/a> of the Dutch is engaged, according to a study that research agency Effectory did among over 400,000 Dutch people. The majority (63 percent) is not. These people generally perform properly, but do not have their dream job<\/a>. Actually, they would want another job just as much.<\/p>\n

Positive spiral<\/h3>\n

Work friendships bring the sort\u00a0of\u00a0positive emotion that the American positive emotion researcher Barbara Fredrickson calls ‘positivity resonance’. The situation that you are in each other’s physical proximity, and there is:<\/p>\n

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