Co-workers Make The Best Friends: True or False?

Friendship is like ‘courtship’, it can manifest itself within the most casual environment and to the highest degree, and it also displays itself in that complicated formal relation or contact with an individual.  In the workplace, the employee interact in a formal set up.  However, there are times that workers tend to indulge in informal relationship such as during lunch and tea breaks or even outside the workplace.  This is very ‘healthy’ for the workers as they get the refreshing moments before they get back to ‘business’.  Employees utilize this free time by casually engaging in discussions that are; for instance, non-work related.  Such an interaction brings out the aspects of personal life experiences, discussion on how to face life, how to indulge in love relationships and the topic are diverse.  Indeed, this is the instance where employee get to know more about each other. 

Considering that, employees are in contact for about 8 hours a day, this means that most of the active time of an employee is spend in the workplace.  Therefore, it can be said that, a workplace is just another ‘home’ for the workers.  They wake up every morning to gather in the same place, the same time, with a common goal and objective and it’s thus beyond any doubt that, there is a special ‘attachment’ in these employees.  It’s justifiably clear that co-workers make the best friends.

Friends are people who can answer for your call when you are in distress, in problems and need some help.  They are those persons that comfort you when you are going through some trying moments.  This is ideally practicable in the workplace where workers tend to help each other in solving problems that are either work related or personal.  For instance, an employee who is discouraged and demoralized is usually spirited and perked up by fellow workmates.  What does this imply?  This means that, there is a personal concern, attention, commitment, care and feelings for each other.  The employee is aided to come out of such ill-feeling that may interfere with the performance level.

Another case is where an employee is faced with daunting moments in handling family issues.  The worker may be experiencing household challenges and the place to seek assistance is from the workmates.  The colleagues do not turn their back on the employee problem, but do their best within their powers, knowledge and understanding to assist the worker come out of such an awkward position.  They offer solutions to the problems and this facilitates the employee to collect the tattered ‘pieces’ of the family matters.  For sure, who else would you call a friend if not the one who gives you a helping hand when you are faced with family troubles?

Employees also indulge is social set ups that are organized out of workplace.  During these times, they socialize, discuss issues that pertain to their life, share ideas on how to progress in career and family matters, how to help a workmate in a problem and certainly how to ‘nourish’ and maintain a ‘healthy’  relationship both in workplace and outside the corridors of the work environment. 

They even organize family ‘get-together’ and parties where the other workers are invited together with their family members to converge in one place in the name of recreating and leisure-partaking.  This gives a chance for the other family members to know each other and the relationship is broadened and deepened by such an event.  This ultimately becomes one ‘family’ in job place and at the household. Convincingly, it must be appreciated that co-workers really make the best ‘acquaintances’.