Fierce Resources: Friends at Work Make For Happier Employees- and a Better Bottom Line

This week’s Fierce resource comes from TLNT.com and was written by Ed Frauenheim.

Friends at Work Make For Happier Employees- and a Better Bottom Line reflects on the importance of developing connections with colleagues in your workplace. Since most of us spend at least 30-40 hours a week at work, having colleagues we consider friends is an important piece of the work-life balance puzzle.

What stops you from developing relationships in your workplace? Sometimes just starting a conversation is all it takes.

“Among the Fortune 100 Best Places to Work, employee survey scores for the statements “this is a friendly place to work” and “there is a ‘family’ or ‘team’ feeling here” have both risen from 1998 to 2014. And the positive score for “people care about each other here” has jumped 9 percentage points during that time, to 90 percent.”

To read the full article, click here.