Hacker News Reader

> You do realize companies function better when employees are friends, right?

Professionalism and trust result in more productivity - not necessarily friendship

For the firm. What does that do for employee salary?

It’s a firms way to gain productivity. Especially after preventing you from socializing near your home.

Wow, uh, maybe we should be against team building in principle.

I’ve gone out of my way to engage socially with co-workers, and I’m not sure any of those relationships ever progressed to the “friend” stage.

80% of my friends are ex-coworkers. Some i even made from WFH. So, I think making friends at work is important, but I'm not sure how much being in-person is necessary.

Granted, I've seen how our developers rarely make friends with each other, so it may be more of a sales/HR/product thing than engineering.