About this episode

The episode explores the impact of workplace friendships on performance and culture with insights from KPMG's data.

Send us Fan Mail Work friends can feel like a bonus, something nice if it happens and irrelevant if it doesn’t. We don’t buy that, and the research doesn’t either. Today we dig into what workplace friendships actually do to performance and culture, using three years of data from KPMG that points to a clear conclusion: connection at work is not incidental, it’s central. We’re joined by Sandy Torchia, KPMG’s U.S. Vice Chair of Talent and Culture, to unpack what the numbers reveal about the emp...

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Hosts: Mel Plett, Francesca Ranieri

Guest: Sandy Torchia

Topics covered

• workplace friendships
• performance
• organizational culture
• data analysis
• employee connection

Keywords

• work friendships
• KPMG
• employee performance
• work culture
• talent management

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Organizations: KPMG

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