Don't take it as a personal accusation - it's great, and lucky for you, that you get that kind of energy from your work and from your relationship with your col

Don't take it as a personal accusation - it's great, and lucky for you, that you get that kind of energy from your work and from your relationship with your colleagues. I've had jobs and colleagues like that too. But fundamentally, your employer - the other party in your most basic work relationship (between you and the company that employs you) - does see you as being "there to work". And the moment you switch jobs, or get moved into another business unit, or get laid off, those social relationships with your (now-former) coworkers aren't automatically there during the work day. If you want to preserve them, guess what? You're looking at using those off hours. I understand your argument a bit better if you're treating socialization like caffeine or something - a purely functional hit of dopamine that gets you through the day. But I think that's maybe a fundamental disagreement on the premise of social life.