{"id":1075,"date":"2017-07-07T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2017-07-11T18:19:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T18:19:51","slug":"outside-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/outside-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Most People Rarely Socialize With Their Co-Workers Outside of Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three in four people say they hang out with their co-workers &#8220;once a month,&#8221; &#8220;once a quarter,&#8221; or &#8220;never,&#8221; according to data by Comparably.<\/p>\n<p>Of the more than 10,000 technology workers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/60-how-often-do-you-socialize-with-team-members-outside-of-work\">polled<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>, just 17% say they socialize with their co-workers outside of work &#8220;once a week&#8221; and 9% say they do so &#8220;multiple times a week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/60-how-often-do-you-socialize-with-team-members-outside-of-work\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1079 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/lo.png\" alt=\"lo\" width=\"958\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/lo-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/lo-768x208.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/lo.png 958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Age matters<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Workers aged 18 to 25, perhaps unsurprisingly, were most likely to spend time hanging out with their co-workers outside of work. About 23% said they do so once a week, and another 18% said they do so multiple times a week.<\/p>\n<p>Time spent with coworkers declined from there, hitting its lowest point among workers aged 56 to\u00a060, of whom 10% say socialize with their coworkers once a week and 3% say socialize with their coworkers multiple times a week.<\/p>\n<p>Ages 18 to 25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/60-how-often-do-you-socialize-with-team-members-outside-of-work\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1083 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/lol.png\" alt=\"lol\" width=\"463\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/lol-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/lol.png 463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 85vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ages 56 to 60<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/60-how-often-do-you-socialize-with-team-members-outside-of-work\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1082\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1082\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/graph.png\" alt=\"graph\" width=\"465\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/graph-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/graph.png 465w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 85vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The most and least social cities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Workers in New York and San Francisco get together with their coworkers more frequently than anyone else: 29% of respondents in\u00a0each of the two cities say they socialize with their\u00a0coworkers either once a week or multiple times a week.<\/p>\n<p>New York<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/60-how-often-do-you-socialize-with-team-members-outside-of-work\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1085\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1085\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/NYC.png\" alt=\"NYC\" width=\"466\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/NYC-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/NYC.png 466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 85vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/60-how-often-do-you-socialize-with-team-members-outside-of-work\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1086\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1086\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/SFC.png\" alt=\"SFC\" width=\"466\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/SFC-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/SFC.png 466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 85vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Workers in Dallas get together less\u00a0frequently than anyone else: 81% of respondents say they see their coworkers either once a month, once a quarter, or never. (About 57% of those respondents selected &#8220;once a quarter&#8221; or &#8220;never,&#8221; the most of any other group.)<\/p>\n<p>Dallas<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/60-how-often-do-you-socialize-with-team-members-outside-of-work\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1087\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1087\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/dallas.png\" alt=\"dallas\" width=\"466\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/dallas-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/07\/dallas.png 466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 85vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All figures come from a July 7 reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/60-how-often-do-you-socialize-with-team-members-outside-of-work\">ongoing query<\/a> by Comparably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three in four people say they hang out with their co-workers &#8220;once a month,&#8221; &#8220;once a quarter,&#8221; or &#8220;never,&#8221; according to data by Comparably. Of the more than 10,000 technology workers polled by Comparably, just 17% say they socialize with their co-workers outside of work &#8220;once a week&#8221; and 9% say they do so &#8220;multiple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/outside-of-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65],"tags":[51,69,91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}