Friendships at work can boost happiness. Here's how to nurture them
Sure, you may resent how much of your energy gets sucked up by your job. But research finds that keeping up relationships with colleagues may have a big upside to your health and happiness.
The pandemic had a huge impact on how we work, and our relationship with our jobs. For many people who worked remotely for months (or still do), the lost boundaries between their work and personal lives may have helped fuel a rise in burnout.
Trends like "quiet quitting" have taken off as many tried to pull back how much of themselves they invested in their careers.
But if putting in extra grueling hours at work has lost its appeal, investing in the other humans that you work with may be worth a second look.
One of the key factors that make for happier, healthier workers is how connected people feel, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the , one of the longest running studies on what makes humans thrive.
