Is it necessary to keep cordial relations with work colleagues?

When we hear the word “Relationship”, a majority of people can think only about our life partner, romantic lover, or at the most family and friends. But you shouldn’t forget that a significant amount of your day is spent with office colleagues. Whether you like it or not, but you have to put up with unknown and professional people in closed AC rooms for hours.

Why it shouldn’t be ignored?

You go to office, work, build a career and make money for your family; but life is never straightforward for anyone. It doesn’t take time for the office environment to turn toxic.

You have to remember that people work at offices to progress in their careers and if some of them feel any obstacles in their path they will resort to any bad thing to climb up the ladder in the company, even if it means doing anything against you. So besides doing your work, you have to be aware of your work surroundings. Some other reasons are:

• Different kinds of people in our office like the team members, associates, managers, supervisors, and the bosses play varying degrees of role in our daily working quality and experience and do influence our career graph.

• The workplace always has the possibility of potential conflict, and why not? People of different fields, values, cultures, ambitions, age-range and most importantly, personalities are present all around you.

• You never know, one small disagreement with a moody senior may turn out to be a reason for you getting the pink slip. Or sometimes people are just jealous and that is enough.

• Any issues at the workplace with you mostly do spill over to your family and other leisure life, as you always stay under stress and worried about all of it.

• You also have to consider workplace romance and attraction. Most of companies have policies against it and expect people to focus on their work because that’s the only thing they go there for right?

• You have to beware and think twice before loving someone at work, they may do it in return for any favors, or advancements in career; and if anything goes wrong in it, they won’t hesitate in pulling you down and harassing you continuously.

Humans desire acceptance

We are naturally social creatures and hence are always on the lookout for positive interactions and associations. Each and every human has some amount of ego and self-esteem, some of them a lot of it though, and some of the people have fragile egos which can break even after an accidental and fun jibe at them.

All that we need is respect and that the society around us, the people around us accept us, appreciate us always. But obviously that will not happen always and with everyone and people should realize and admit it. That will greatly help in having cordial work relationships.

You never know, having a good professional and cordial relations with colleagues, esp. seniors can unexpectedly help you in your career graph. Surely being amicable, professional and considerate with everyone around you will save a lot of hassles in life and also help in the holistic growth of the company and everyone in it.