Do you have a best friend at work? This question, according to Gallup, is the most controversial question the analytics company has ever asked in 30 years of workplace engagement research. Apparently, it gets a rise out of bosses who don’t believe friendships should have anything to do with a company’s bottom line. The article […]
Project BFF sat down with author, activist, and founder of the #LoseHateNotWeight campaign to talk about the friendships in her life.
This article on Thought Catalog got us thinking about the power of friends in our lives. We’re social beings, and research more and more shows how bad loneliness is for our health. Lonely people are more likely to have heart disease and stroke, have immune system problems, and may even have a harder time recovering from cancer. Whew. That’s […]
One of the joys of friends is getting to experience life with them — we’re with them to cheer on their successes and share in their happiness. That also means one of the less fun parts of friendship is being there when our friends are in pain. And when a friend loses a loved one, […]
So many of us have a love-hate relationship with work. It brings us some combination of satisfaction, confidence, status, money. And, at the same time, stress, stress, and more stress — from feeling overworked or underappreciated. That’s just for people who basically like their jobs. (We won’t go down a rabbit hole of recrimination, unfairness, […]