5 ms·
What I find interesting is time spent with coworkers. It's about equal to time spent with partner throughout most of adulthood, and it's significantly higher th
by _qulr 6y ago
What I find interesting is time spent with coworkers. It's about equal to time spent with partner throughout most of adulthood, and it's significantly higher than time spent with friends. Unsurprisingly, time spent with coworkers drops precipitously at retirement age, but perhaps surprisingly, time spent with friends does not then increase to compensate.
A lot of people in the comments are talking about children, but coworkers seem pretty crucial according to the charts.
- hindsightbias 6y agoThe post-Covid remote utopia so many seem to be excited about is going to be hard for a lot of workers. Work, lunch, happy hour, bowling, league sports. Now they all have is Slack.
- intotheabyss 6y agoWhat's wrong with spending less time with co-workers? These are people you have to spend time with, regardless if you like them or not. I would personally much rather not spend time with people I didn't choose to spend time with.
- Kalium 6y agoI think it may perhaps not be a question of "right" or "wrong". It will probably be a jarring change for many people as it affects major chunks of their regular social contact.
- hindsightbias 6y agoIMO, most people aren‘t very good at building their own tribes outside of church, school and work. Building bubbles of “Like” only is probably not an optimal societal outcome either.
- bradlys 6y ago> I would personally much rather not spend time with people I didn't choose to spend time with. Most friends are made this way. School as an example.
- munificent 6y ago> but perhaps surprisingly, time spent with friends does not then increase to compensate. Yeah, one way to look at this data is that having kids and working is massively disruptful to maintaining your friend network, but working and parenting are both time limited. When those expire they leave nothing in their absence.
- orky56 6y agoTime spent with coworkers is just time spent at work. It's not voluntary so time spent away from work once retirement hits isn't about transferring all of it to friends. Retirement includes time for hobbies which can be solitary without the connotation of loneliness or a social pariah.