What’s Missing From Office Life? It May Be Your Work Spouse

Work besties are trying to reunite, even if they have to make appointments across hybrid-work schedules

Rashida Jones and Amy Poehler played work spouses on the TV sitcom ’Parks and Recreation.’ NBC/Everett Collection

You’re back in the office. Now it’s time to get back with your office spouse.

Like a real spouse, a work husband or work wife can be a significant other. It’s that someone who joins you on coffee runs, rolls eyes at you in meetings and agrees that your idea was way better than the boss’s. Most of all, it’s that person who inhabits the day-to-day language, deadlines and cast of characters in your personal office sitcom—and helps you do your job better.  

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