Is it better to endure the many social relationships at work that affect the the performance of duties, or to change offices and limit these relationships, and what are the boundaries of legitimate relationships in the work environment?

Mixing in the workplace and failing to regulate relationships between employees entails various harms, such as wasting time and an abundance of idle chatter, and perhaps even leading to backbiting and slander. However, this is not an invitation to isolation, but rather an call for moderation and balance. The Muslim should limit their interactions to greetings, showing affection, offering sincere advice, and a little permissible talk, and then focus on their work. If they have free time, they should occupy themselves with the remembrance of Allah and reading beneficial books. They should smile at others, politely excuse themselves from participating in excessive socializing, explain to them the virtue of engaging in acts of obedience, and find ways to draw them into their own path and methodology. They must also be patient with any harm they encounter, for "The believer who mixes with people and is patient with their harm is greater in reward than the believer who does not mix with people and is not patient with their harm."

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah said: "If mixing involves cooperation in righteousness and piety, then it is commanded. But if it involves cooperation in sin and transgression, then it is forbidden. And there must be times when a servant secludes himself for supplication, remembrance, prayer, contemplation, and self-accounting. Absolute mixing is wrong, and absolute seclusion is wrong."