{"id":518,"date":"2017-05-16T08:49:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T08:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2017-05-16T08:55:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T08:55:44","slug":"work-bffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/work-bffs\/","title":{"rendered":"People Who Work in HR Are Most Likely to Have a Work Bestie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of workers say they have a close friend at work, and those in human resources lead the pack, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/58-do-you-have-a-close-friend-at-work\">ongoing query<\/a>\u00a0by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\">Comparably<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-one percent of workers in human resources reported having a work BFF, a quality that has been scientifically linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/scienceofus\/2014\/12\/you-need-a-work-best-friend.html\">better productivity and performance<\/a>. HR workers were followed next by those on the executive team (59%), business development (57%) and communications (57%).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-519\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/overall.png\" alt=\"overall\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/overall-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/overall.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People in legal, IT and engineering were least likely to report having a best friend. Men in legal showed the lowest rate overall, with only 39% of them saying they had a best friend at work.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-520\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/legal.png\" alt=\"legal\" width=\"854\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/legal-300x27.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/legal-768x69.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/legal.png 854w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><br \/>\nThe overall average for men and women was 51% and 55%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The results are as of May 16 and include responses from 10,000 workers in the tech industry. Check out the full breakdown here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of workers say they have a close friend at work, and those in human resources lead the pack, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query\u00a0by Comparably. Sixty-one percent of workers in human resources reported having a work BFF, a quality that has been scientifically linked to better productivity and performance. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/work-bffs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[55,56,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}