Cacioppo Emotional Intelligence Management Productivity 
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 8, 2017
What’s more, employees who report having friends at work have higher levels of productivity, retention, and job satisfaction than those who don’t. Managers and leaders need to continue being able to assign tasks and role hierarchy does need to be respected. That said, friendship at work is often tricky for a reason.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Research generally shows that having friends at work can increase productivity and engagement. Their supervisor told Lata that they were both being considered for a major promotion and whoever received the job would end up managing the other. Gemma Escribano/EyeEm/Getty Images. And they both had good reason to want this promotion.
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