If you work at least 40 hours a week, you spend more time with your co-workers than your friends and family so it’s worthwhile to have good work relationships. In fact, a Globoforce survey found that people with work friends are nearly three times more likely to say they love their companies.
“You don’t have to be best friends [with your co-workers], but being polite, respectful, engaging, and on the ball is critical to your ongoing success,” says Lori Scherwin, founder of the New York City-based career coaching firm Strategize That. “Your demeanor and relationships often count at least as much, if not more at times, than the work product itself. If people enjoy working with you, you are more likely to get additional opportunities.”
It can seem transactional or opportunistic to create a strategy for forging work friendships, but there are some people that should be at the top of your work friends wish list.
Read the rest in this article I wrote for Monster.
