{"id":18287,"date":"2023-07-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empire-group.ap.applyflow.com\/what-to-give-your-work-spouse-for-christmas\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T00:00:00","slug":"what-to-give-your-work-spouse-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/what-to-give-your-work-spouse-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"What to give your work spouse for Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>\u200b<span spantype=\"color\" >What to give your work spouse for Xmas?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span spantype=\"color\" >I am forever perplexed at the merging of our work and home life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span spantype=\"color\" >As the workplace becomes a community for many individuals, is it appropriate to have a work spouse and should you strive to have the special connection in the workplace?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span spantype=\"color\" >Wikipedia states a work spouse as \u201ca special, platonic friendship with a work colleague, with a close emotional bond, high levels of disclosure and support, and mutual trust, honesty, loyalty, and respect\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span spantype=\"color\" >Simply, someone who puts up with your moods, shares the highs and lows and offers words of support when you need it. They might buy you a coffee, know exactly how and when to make you laugh but dose you with honesty when you need it and encourage you to tidy your under-desk shoe collection. All relationships built on trust, honesty loyalty and respect are worth having and will deliver wellbeing in the workplace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span spantype=\"color\" >As we slide into Xmas it might be the greatest gift you can give to acknowledge your work spouse and just take a minute to say thanks for the support, honesty, loyalty, and respect.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bWhat to give your work spouse for Xmas? I am forever perplexed at the merging of our work and home life. As the workplace becomes a community for many individuals, is it appropriate to have a work spouse and should you strive to have the special connection in the workplace? Wikipedia states a work spouse&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/18288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.empiregroup.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}