Workplace Friendships: Asset or Liability?

Sapphire Mccullough views are agreeable.
Love happens and the challenge is how the individual manages it.
Balance of personal and professional life is important.  

The stake is again double.
2 bosses = Offical boss and personal boss together in office.
Peak performance order is required.

The colleagues in love becomes highlight and noticeable always.
 

Good article,
Friends are forever, companies and jobs change.
There is always a thin Red line between a colleague, friend and boss.
One is responsible to know the limits and then cross beyond them.
Due deligence is a must always.
Impeccably when colleagues and boss become friends the environment is filled with trust and mutual respect, caring for other and protecting their interest also. It is an elevated role play thinking right from micros to macros. Thing move smooth & swift. Trouble shooting and problem solving take lead rather than blaming others in the organisation. Ownership and self esteem leads.
End of the day it is what we give is important than we take. 
I am thankful to my ex colleagues bosses who are great friends now.

friendship is the gift of god, so we should admire and matain the santity of the same. friendship at any place is asset and very few people are lucky enough to have the same.friedship doesnot have any boundry for age, sex, religion, caste, status or class.

Tanmay Gaur made an interesting comment which is that it is a big NO to fall in love in the office... well that never makes sense to me, you fall in love not based on surroundings or circumstances whether it is love or war... You fall in love because you do... Once it happens it is HOW you behave and whether you turn life into a 3-ring circus or if you contemplate your feelings and then behave impeccably - in other words professionally... Being in love is another of the many experiences we may have in Life, others are mourning, weddings, divorce and redundancy ... the list is endless.  I would rather individuals were falling in love at work then they were backstabbing each other :) Though both provide me with wonderful insights into the human condition and allow me the artistic licence as a writer to create a poem or something out of the reflection and observations...

The new growing spiritual consciousness throughout the universe implores us to consider each new alliance as a potential friend, therefore wherever you find such an alliance it should first and foremost be treated with the view that you are facing your best friend.  If we ran business in such a way we would watch each others backs and be less motivated by greed and materialism and more engaged in healthy fulfilling engagements to the betterment of each of our 'friends'... Would the economy stand still hardly, you can still have a healthy competition in commerce without compromising your ethics by immorality, or excessive morality... just the middle road.  I encourage solid friendships even with my rivals and combatant adversaries in life, since it is wiser to do so than to have uneccessary blocks and resistance.

If ppl are good its obvious that we are going to be good friends....if they are not we shouldn't avoid them totally should deal with them on work related queries.. must maintain good contact and should help them as well. Good or bad - love everybody. Workplace Friendship is great thing and intellectual one. This relationship may face problem when they love a same girl/boy....this may leads to ego and other mental problem between them..... which makes them to clash each other. So avoid love and if you come to know about that don't pay attention to them. Its not possible - I know its true. LOVE FREE WORK PLACE...

People spent most part of their life in their workplace. A congenial and friendly workspace is the best thing that can happen to anyone and an asset to both workers and the employer. It is hell to work in an unfriendly atmosphere. 

In predominantly horizontal mode of working, as in private institutions, friendship can brew naturally without infringing business relations.  

In more hierarchical type of inter-working, as in the government organisations, the relations take different forms that are restricted within rigid framework of the hierarchy. There is less scope of developing a global friendliness is such environment.    

However, there are limitations with individuals how far their friendship can go so that the general happiness the friendships create include the whole group and remain in tact and longstanding. 

The most viable form of inter personnel relationship is to keep friendship and business relations separate. It is common scene now  in many companies that arch rivals and those with diagonally differing views on business matters keep good friendly attitudes in the workplace, though some are calculated make believe external behavior.   Ever noticed those intermittent loud laughs in conference rooms where people of totally different view points sit and seldom agree anything the other guy says. It is worth practicing in the sake of "Friendship in Workplace"  

Interesting.....

I think The good friend is who can show you the actual & real path. If some how you are disturb or on a wrong way so he or she should enough capable to see and open your eyes. 
And the colleagues turning as best friends is a good idea. The buddy who lives with you daily around 8-10 hours, you shares you celebrates - your work, joy & sorrow with him /her. The best is who can read you, can understand you. And the love factor between colleagues. I dont think is bad, if you can find a life partner in your frd's who knows you as you know ur self, so it is good enough to go through it. 

For me life without friends is nothing. I love to make good friends with long lasting friendship..... :)

interesting thought

My idea is to befriend only good guys around. Be it at work or anywhere. Even if your boss is a good guy, nothing wrong in making him your friend or confide. Good guys who are professional, will never let you down at work. Everybody need help at work. Its good if you have friends around. The only thing which the article does not cover, is to fell in love at office. Which I think is a big NO.