Able to go beyond the borders of your open-space, you want to take part in the aperitif organized by your colleagues in a trendy bar in the center and you are right! By getting to know them outside of work, you give yourself the opportunity to discover common skills, passions and points of view. By updating these affinities, you will gain in solidarity:at work as in life, forming a friendship gives you the opportunity to create a special bond that will give you a mutual desire to help each other. Very useful when you lose on a subject or you have to cover for a delay!
Once past the office stage, there is the possibility of seeing your relationships take such a big step at work, that they risk affecting your profitability. Because of friendships made outside of work, the feeling of competitiveness disappears to give way to compassion and relaxation. In particular if you hold a leadership position (head of the company, manager, team leader, etc.), it is important to keep a certain distance with your employees in order to be able to maintain a certain objectivity with regard to their work, their performance or their behavior.
Difficult to pass through friendships at work. By dint of dating at the office, it is normal to find affinities with some of your colleagues and to want to seek to know them better outside the company. It is also during these moments shared outside that individuals take advantage of them to open up about themselves, their experiences or their real impressions of work. Take advantage of these moments to get closer to your colleagues:it is by getting to know them better that you will be perfectly able to understand their possible slowdowns at work, their lack of performance and be able to help them during these difficult times.
As a traditional friendship works, a friendship at work can very well turn sour and have serious consequences on your professional future. When you fall out with a friend, in the worst case you will never hear from you again and you can choose to move on. Getting angry with a co-worker is a completely different story:overnight you can't decide not to meet them again. This is when things go wrong because, from a fusional friendship can very well be born a brutal rivalry which will have heavy repercussions in your company. It is better to keep your distance and avoid revealing too much about your personal life to prevent this information from turning against you.
