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Newspaper Interview: Workplace Friendships

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Can good friends be colleagues – or vice-versa? Or is it better to draw clear boundaries and let work be work and leisure be leisure? In an interview with Florian Gontek of DER SPIEGEL, Leoni Linek discusses the challenges that work life presents for personal relationships and how they have developed over the past decades. The complete interview is now available for subscribers at SPIEGEL Online.