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Originally Posted by parmnion

But are fellow employees strangers?

Not strangers but not necessarily always people you can have an "intimate" relationship with. I say intimate because it's crossing personal boundaries.

I've worked with a close friend in the past so were pretty comfortable with a hand on the shoulder or whatever but someone who is purely a colleague you wouldn't always be familiar on a personal level and Im.not comfortable with people I only know from work invading my personal space.