‘Extroverts in the workplace suck': This employee blasted corporate culture on Reddit saying management holds workers back for being introverts — but is it true?

They go on to explain how they avoided any volunteer work, social gatherings, dinner parties or friend requests from co-workers because they didn’t want to spend any of their “leisure time to deal with people I’d rather not.”

“I just want to do what I’m paid for and go home,” the original post reads. The comment section was split, but some users echoed these sentiments.

“Extroverts in the workplace suck,” wrote one commenter.

“I guess some extroverts are unaware of how uncomfortable/draining it is to have kumbaya moments all the time,” wrote another.

Is the modern workplace really skewed towards extroverts, and does this have consequences that could impact an employee’s earning potential?

Extroverts do have it easier

According to an article from the Cleveland Clinic, an introvert is someone who thinks more internally, which means they think better alone and prioritize alone time. An extrovert, by contrast, draws their energy from socializing and interacting with the outside world.

Researchers at the University of Toronto found that extroverts enjoy a greater advantage over their introverted peers in the modern workplace. The 2019 study, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, found that extroversion had plenty of advantages at work, but the greatest benefits were in four specific areas: motivational, emotional, interpersonal and performance-related.

Simply put, those who worked better in groups thrived in corporate environments.

There’s more research that identified another layer of potential advantages for this privileged group of social butterflies: more pay over time.