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By Daniel Butcher<\/a><\/p>\n

Friendship at work is important for many professionals as a crucial source of connection, especially for people who spend a lot of time working.<\/p>\n

Academy of Management Scholar Nancy Rothbard<\/a> of the University of Pennsylvania said that her research highlighted that workplace friendships can be a little bit trickier than non-workplace friendships for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne is that you don\u2019t have the same level of voluntary choice in an organizational setting about who you interact with\u2014sometimes you don\u2019t get to choose who\u2019s on your team,\u201d Rothbard said. \u201cAnd so, if you are or aren\u2019t friends with people on the team, that can impact the way that you interact with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to be careful about the boundaries of those friendships and how they play out, you also have to be careful, because sometimes you can really go in deep, and it can be very distracting for your own ability to do your work if you\u2019re always trying to help a friend,\u201d she said. \u201cA third reason why friendship at work can be really challenging is that you can be seen as having a clique, or people can be envious of that friendship, or they can think about the friendship as something that they\u2019re worried about, and so that can be really challenging.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last reason is, sometimes when you\u2019re known to be friends with somebody, people might perceive the decision-making as less fair, whether it is fair or not, if you\u2019re seen as making that decision with, or about, a friend, and so that\u2019s another issue you have to be aware of, monitor, and manage when you are friends with others in the workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Research has also shown that workplace friendships are even more challenging when relationships cross hierarchical levels.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese personal disclosures or issues are more awkward or can be seen by others in ways that make them seem problematic when it\u2019s across these levels of hierarchy,\u201d Rothbard said. \u201cI have a AOM article titled \u201cOMG! My Boss Just Friended Me: How Evaluations of Colleagues\u2019 Disclosure, Gender, and Rank Shape Personal\/Professional Boundary Blurring Online<\/a>,\u201d which looked at that exact issue of hierarchy and friendship, that is, personal disclosure across hierarchical boundaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found that that was quite uncomfortable for people being connected across hierarchical levels, much more so than being connected to peers,\u201d she said. \u201cIf your boss sends a friend request, you feel pressured to accept it.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t want to accept it, but they often feel obligated to accept it, and so then it creates a whole host of other issues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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