This is a problem with how employment works, more than anything.
I've always "hung out" with colleagues after work hours. Because we're all in the same boat, and have more in common with each-other than anyone else, because we spend 40+ hours a week in the same room.
It's a failure of HR and management, imo, when that doesn't happen. And it can be increasingly hard to fix.
The more it goes the more I have resistance to that very concept.
Then I see people expecting to go to lunch together, and spent more time after work hours.
Am I getting broken or something ? It seems to me that’s an ungodly amount of our life time expected to spend with “just” coworkers. They are nice people, but it’s not like I am marrying them.
I guess I wouldn’t be able to live in middle size submarine.
I stopped doing employment because I don't have much interest in most people. At work I had to hang around some random guys for 40h a week and I just couldn't stand it.
Now I'm a freelancer and work remote, so I can minimize the non-work related communication with co-workers.
I have a few friends and go to parties two times a month and host my own meetup one time a month.
I've always "hung out" with colleagues after work hours. Because we're all in the same boat, and have more in common with each-other than anyone else, because we spend 40+ hours a week in the same room.
It's a failure of HR and management, imo, when that doesn't happen. And it can be increasingly hard to fix.