{"id":9119,"date":"2020-05-26T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=9119"},"modified":"2020-05-24T18:38:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T23:38:29","slug":"why-you-miss-those-casual-friends-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/why-you-miss-those-casual-friends-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Miss Those Casual Friends So Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA growing body of research suggests that there are surprisingly powerful benefits to connecting with casual acquaintances \u2014 relationships that sociologists call \u201cweak ties.\u201d\u00a0 In a normal day, people interact with somewhere <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">between\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/0146167214529799\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">11 and 16 weak ties<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0on <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the way to work, while running errands, or on a break between meetings at the office.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the adjustments we have made to be safe during the pandemic, these interactions may be limited or absent from our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2020\/04\/why-you-miss-those-casual-friends-so-much?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=newsletter_daily&#038;utm_campaign=dailyalert_activesubs&#038;utm_content=signinnudge&#038;referral=00563&#038;deliveryName=DM77538\">Why You Miss Those Casual Friends So Much<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Executive Summary On a typical day, we interact with somewhere between 11 and 16 casual acquaintances &#8211; for example, the barista we see every morning or the colleague we greet in the hallway.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA growing body of research suggests that there are surprisingly powerful benefits to connecting with casual acquaintances \u2014 relationships that sociologists call \u201cweak ties.\u201d\u00a0 In a normal day, people interact with somewhere between\u00a011 and 16 weak ties\u00a0on the way to work, while running errands, or on a break between meetings at the office.\u201d\u00a0 With the adjustments we have made to be safe during the pandemic, these interactions may be limited or absent from our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hbr.org\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2020\/04\/Apr20_22_502427184.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Why You Miss Those Casual Friends So Much","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[96,42,4,422],"class_list":{"0":"post-9119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-company_culture","9":"tag-wellbeing","10":"tag-wellness","11":"tag-work_from_home"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9121,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9119\/revisions\/9121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}