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.

  • FlightyPenguin@lemmy.world
    17·
    10 months ago

    I appreciate you. I’m a teetotaling vegetarian. I usually manage to figure something out (and I try not to impose or be a killjoy), but it’s easier when colleagues are looking out for you.

    • averagedrunk@lemmy.ml
      1·
      10 months ago

      You’d be welcome at my barbecue. I’ve got one grill that is just for my vegan friends and has never had an animal product on it along with a set of separate utensils (although they get washed with the others).

      But I do that for friends, coworkers aren’t allowed to know where I live.