Office happy hours, client dinners and other after-hours work gatherings lose their luster as more people feel the pull of home.

Office happy hours, client dinners and other after-hours work gatherings lose their luster as more people feel the pull of home

Patience for after-hours work socializing is wearing thin.

After an initial burst of postpandemic happy hours, rubber chicken dinners and mandatory office merriment, many employees are adopting a stricter 5:01-and-I’m-done attitude to their work schedules. More U.S. workers say they’re trying to draw thicker lines between work and the rest of life, and that often means clocking out and eschewing invites to socialize with co-workers. Corporate event planners say they’re already facing pushback for fall activities and any work-related functions that take place on weekends.

  • adaveinthelife
    2917·
    1 year ago

    The only people staying after work for any reason, be it social or overtime, are the parents avoiding their kids. They make everyone else look bad, but it’s them who should be shamed.

    • Rusky_900@reddthat.com
      171·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I think the fact that fathers are in general far more involved in child care has had a massive effect.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      11·
      1 year ago

      This is factually wrong. You just made a tremendously broad statement with no backing that’s trivially proven untrue.

      I used to socialize after work and neither me nor the majority had children.

      • adaveinthelife
        1·
        1 year ago

        You are correct, and I admire anyone who can put anecdotal evidence forward to successfully prove a point.

        I often forget extroverts exist.