If you're back to work or maybe never left during the pandemic, are you finding that your co-workers just aren't as friendly anymore? Maybe you invite them out after work for a drink or coffee and they decline when they used to always join you. 

More and more people are breaking up with their work friends. A Gallup poll surveyed hybrid workers and found in June that 17 percent said they had a “best friend” at work, down from 22 percent who said they did in 2019. Julianna Pillemer is a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. She's studied work relationships. 

If you're back to work or maybe never left during the pandemic, are you finding that your co-workers just aren't as friendly anymore? Maybe you invite them out after work for a drink or coffee and they decline when they used to always join you. 
More and more people are breaking up with their work friends. A Gallup poll surveyed hybrid workers and found in June that 17 percent said they had a “best friend” at work, down from 22 percent who said they did in 2019. Julianna Pillemer is a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. She's studied work relationships.

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