{"id":2110,"date":"2017-11-03T20:37:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T20:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2017-11-03T20:37:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T20:37:36","slug":"women-close-friend-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/women-close-friend-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Are More Likely Than Men to Have a Close Friend at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifty-six percent of women say they have a close friend at work compared to 51% of men, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query<\/a> by more than 10,000 people employed at tech companies across the U.S.<\/p>\n

Having close friendships at work is important: research has shown that it is a predictor of employee engagement and retention.<\/p>\n

On a department level<\/b><\/p>\n

Taking a closer look at the data from a department level, workers in HR and executive roles were most likely to say that they work with a close friend (61% and 62%, respectively).<\/p>\n

Employees in IT and legal were least likely to say the same (47% for both).<\/p>\n

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Workers under 30 report the highest rates of having a close work friend<\/b><\/p>\n

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Employees aged 30 and under tend to report the highest rates of having a close friend at work (above 55%). The rate declines from there, hitting a low of 44% among workers 51 to 55.<\/p>\n

By experience<\/b><\/p>\n

Workers with entry-level experience at a company are the least likely to have a close friend at work (48%). That rate generally improves with time, ranging between 50% and 56% for all other age groups.<\/p>\n

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The latest reading is as of Nov. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fifty-six percent of women say they have a close friend at work compared to 51% of men, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by more than 10,000 people employed at tech companies across the U.S. Having close friendships at work is important: research has shown that it is a predictor of employee … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,65],"tags":[51,91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110"}],"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=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}