{"id":2910,"date":"2017-12-20T21:43:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2017-12-20T21:43:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:43:30","slug":"women-are-more-likely-than-men-to-have-a-work-bff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/women-are-more-likely-than-men-to-have-a-work-bff\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Are More Likely Than Men to Have a Work BFF"},"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\u00a0ongoing query<\/a>\u00a0by 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

\"ageee\"<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Dec. 20.<\/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\u00a0ongoing query\u00a0by 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 engagement and … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65],"tags":[69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910"}],"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=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}