Work friends become real friends once you turn the work-friend group into an organizing committee. I still have dozens of friends from my previous job, because we were organizing together

Oh man, I have many life-long friends from previous jobs. Whether this happens to you totally depends on where you work and the culture there, as well as how open you are and how often you reach out to people to organize stuff

Nah, I have made real friends at work. If I leave my current job, I will absolutely keep in touch with my coworker. We are fully remote, but I will make him game with me if we stop working together. He’s too chill for me to lose touch with.

Other people at work I considered friends I did eventually lose touch with, but I went to one of their weddings, and had a great time caught up with a lot of my old coworkers.

I agree, coworkers aren’t always friends, but you spend a good chunk of your life there. If you don’t make friends with some of them, you’re losing out and making things more difficult for yourself.

Nobody is expected to make work friends, but if you don’t t least have one or two, you’ll be more miserable at work.

I made lots of permanent friends at one of my jobs, but I didn’t have a long commute or anything, we live 20 minutes apart only because they had a commute