Mods please do not remove this article right away to general disscusion or anything else. The feedback should not come from someone who is in their early 20's working part time at Walmart and hugs every hot female coworker he sees without a concern. This is for professional people with careers who's life could be ruined due to a simple hug.
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/103549/To-Hug-or-Not-to-Hug
Women hug each other to keep in solidarity in the workplace (since its harder for them to get along then their male coworkers). Women who tend to initiate hugs with guys in the workplace tend to think of those guys as "nice guys" or unthreatning males with vaginas.
Men who hug women in the workplace tend to do it because of their AFCness, and it usually is the only way they could cheaply feel their t1ts against their chests without appearing to wanting them. Men who fully try to hug and embrace other men with both arms might be gay.
The negative usually tends to come down to hugs between men and women in the workplace, where the women feels uncomfertable and make a compliant about sexual harasment. Personally I don't see a point for hugging in the workplace, its just brings other troubling elements into the equation.
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/103549/To-Hug-or-Not-to-Hug
My take on this:Hugging between women is probably more common, but that younger men seem more willing to hug friends or engage in a kind of half hug with an arm draped around a shoulder. Post has noticed increased hugging in workplaces dominated by younger employees and dot-com offices.
Women hug each other to keep in solidarity in the workplace (since its harder for them to get along then their male coworkers). Women who tend to initiate hugs with guys in the workplace tend to think of those guys as "nice guys" or unthreatning males with vaginas.
Men who hug women in the workplace tend to do it because of their AFCness, and it usually is the only way they could cheaply feel their t1ts against their chests without appearing to wanting them. Men who fully try to hug and embrace other men with both arms might be gay.
The negative usually tends to come down to hugs between men and women in the workplace, where the women feels uncomfertable and make a compliant about sexual harasment. Personally I don't see a point for hugging in the workplace, its just brings other troubling elements into the equation.