{"id":3803,"date":"2018-04-19T10:56:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T10:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2018-04-19T10:59:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T10:59:58","slug":"execs-are-most-likely-to-say-they-have-a-bff-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/execs-are-most-likely-to-say-they-have-a-bff-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Execs Are Most Likely to Say They Have a BFF at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who work in the highest levels of their company tend to have the highest rates of saying they have a best friend at work, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/58-do-you-have-a-close-friend-at-work\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>. More than 10,000 people across the tech industry responded to the query.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-six percent of executives say they have a best friend at work, the most of any department of workers across tech companies. The next-highest rates were among HR workers (65%), business development (61%), and communications (61%).<\/p>\n<p>Research shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2017\/05\/work-friends-make-us-more-productive-except-when-they-stress-us-out\">having a best friend<\/a> at work improves retention and productivity.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3806 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/josh3.png\" alt=\"josh3\" width=\"710\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/josh3-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/josh3.png 710w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Men vs. women<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Men were slightly less likely than women to say they have a best friend at work (56% vs. 60%).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3808 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/josh.png\" alt=\"josh\" width=\"682\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/josh-300x51.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/josh.png 682w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>The older you are, the less likely you are to say you have a BFF at work<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Workers younger than 30 had the highest rates of saying they have a best friend at work (61%). The rate declined from there, hitting a low of 50% among those nearing retirement.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3805 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/josh4.png\" alt=\"josh4\" width=\"526\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/josh4-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/josh4.png 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 85vw, 526px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest reading is as of April 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who work in the highest levels of their company tend to have the highest rates of saying they have a best friend at work, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. More than 10,000 people across the tech industry responded to the query. Sixty-six percent of executives say they have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/execs-are-most-likely-to-say-they-have-a-bff-at-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65],"tags":[51,146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803"}],"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=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}