Office happy hours, client dinners and other after-hours work gatherings lose their luster as more people feel the pull of home.

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.

  • ashenblood
    1·
    1 year ago

    Totally agree. It happened due to capitalism, and there doesn’t seem to be any easy way to reverse it.

    There are few things in this world that annoy me more than people who use the workplace for social gratification because they are insufferable in their private lives and nobody wants to spend time with them in the absence of a financial incentive.