Office happy hours, client dinners and other after-hours work gatherings lose their luster as more people feel the pull of home
Patience for after-hours work socializing is wearing thin.
After an initial burst of postpandemic happy hours, rubber chicken dinners and mandatory office merriment, many employees are adopting a stricter 5:01-and-I’m-done attitude to their work schedules. More U.S. workers say they’re trying to draw thicker lines between work and the rest of life, and that often means clocking out and eschewing invites to socialize with co-workers. Corporate event planners say they’re already facing pushback for fall activities and any work-related functions that take place on weekends.
Nobody wants to spend time with the kind of people who don’t want to go home after work.
We all know the type with their overly loud laughing at the bosses jokes.
Depends on the work environment. Where I work I’m more than happy to hang out with my co workers after work, but that’s because management doesn’t shove a stick up everyone’s ass, nor do we hire that type of people.