mixes business with pleasure
Blends professional, personal
To mix business with pleasure is to combine work activities with enjoyment or social relationships—sometimes productively, often problematically.
The phrase usually carries a warning: Don't mix business with pleasure.
Workplace romances, deals made on golf courses, and vacations that include client meetings all qualify.
The implication is that one domain will contaminate the other.
- conflict of interestCompromised impartiality from competing stakes
- office romanceRomantic involvement between colleagues
- networkingBuilding professional relationships
- networking eventsGatherings for professional connections
- team buildingFostering workplace collaboration
favoritism · camaraderie · rapport building · social capital · power dynamics · shared experiences · nepotism · old boys club · quid pro quo · insider trading · ethical dilemmas · coworking spaces · professionalism · happy hour · after work drinks · work-life balance · schmoozing · wining and dining
mixes business with pleasurecompartmentalizes
Isolates into sections
mixes business with pleasurenose to the grindstone
Devoted to hard work
strictly business · no-nonsense · buttoned-up · strait-laced · serious-minded
mixes business with pleasureby the book
Following established procedures exactly
buttoned-up · formal · no-nonsense · businesslike · impersonal
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