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Podcast: Women at Work
Episode: Work Friendships Are Mostly Amazing and Sometimes Messy
Description: Say you get along especially well with a colleague. You find yourself hanging out at each other’s desks, texting instead of emailing, meeting up for lunch over the weekend—you’re friends. That’s all well and good…until work puts your friendship to the test. Maybe you disagree over how to approach a project (and hesitate to tell her), or you want to offer her an assignment (but worry how that would come off to others), or she scores a promotion (that you wanted).
We talk through some of the conflicts that frequently come up between fr...