In any case, work is becoming too important for it to be of dubious quality. Work is our community - the place where we meet friends and fall in love, the provider of our social life as well as our work life. Seven out of 10 men and nine out of 10 women make lasting friendships at work. One in three of us meet "most of our friends" through work, acccording to a survey by Judith Doyle at the Industrial Society.AdvertisementThe workplace is the new dating agency, too: two-thirds of us have had a relationship with someone at work. Advertisers have spotted the trend; an ad for ready-prepared food shows a man and a woman in the office, late. He asks her if she wants to join him for dinner and reads the description on the packet poking out of his bag. Eventually, she goes to leave and his face falls. But then she issues the standard nightclub line: "Get your coat, then, you've pulled." Not that the workplace is simply a place for short-term passions: according to a poll by recruitment consultancy Sanders and Sidney, a quarter of us meet our life partners through work.Work is also becoming a more important source of identity. Family, class, region and religion are now less robust indicators of who we are, and work is filling the gap. We don't go to parties and introduce ourselves thus: "Hello, I'm Rona, I prefer the early fiction of Martin Amis" or "I support the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, what do you do?" There's a good reason for this. Our work is more important than any other single factor in defining who we are. "Work," as Albert Einstein said, "is the only thing that gives substance to life.
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