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Friendship at work is much more of a nuanced issue than we admit

We tend to assume friendships at work are universally good, but that's not really the deal.

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Ted Bauer
May 01, 2018
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I've written before about the power of friends at work, as well as the power of gratitude at work, but now we're going to get a little more nuanced. There's a good long interview with two Wharton researchers on "Managing the Dark Side of Workplace Friendships." A lot of good stuff in there, with the general idea being that:

There are complexities and ten…

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