From a story on lithub.com by Tania Malik headlined “Copiers, Cubicles, and Colleagues: A Reading List of Office Novels”:

I am nostalgic for the bygone office life, for that first real job in our twenties when the word “colleague” encompassed both friend and coworker, when work meant hanging out with them during the day, and social life meant hanging out with them late into the night. It was with those peers that we gradually grew into the adults we would become.