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r/work

Working life, good and bad. Jobs, careers, management, burnout, promotions, quitting, boredom, and the parts of work nobody puts in the job description. Founded 2008 · 301.9K members · text posts only

304.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 31K upvotes, which works out to 102 per 1,000 members.

102peak upvotes per 1,000 members
304.8Kmembers
31Kbest post
6.3Kmost comments
105posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

72% 28%
Text 72% Question 28%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Workplace Challenges and Conflicts 46 Work-Life Balance and Stress Management 7 Job Search and Career Advancement 4 Employment Rights and Fair Compensation 2 Professional Development and Skill Building 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Copied my male colleagues’ email style and told I’m being rude

↑ 31K 💬 1.1K text 2025

Craziest way you’ve seen someone quit?

↑ 16.2K 💬 997 question 2025

I was just told it was highly unprofessional of me to be drunk when I am off on the weekend.

↑ 12.3K 💬 3K text 2023

HR knew my scheme and caught me red handed.

↑ 8.9K 💬 946 text 2025

Just happened - Told a group of co-worker who were shit talking me in another language 'Fuck off, I understood you'.

↑ 8.9K 💬 332 text 2024

Manager yells at me for replying to her, I hand her store keys and clock out.

↑ 7.5K 💬 158 text 2025

I'm going to be fired today.

↑ 7.2K 💬 1.6K text 2023

Nobody at work is truly your friend. Just do your job and go home.

↑ 6.6K 💬 657 text 2025

PSA: Mothers' Rooms are for lactating persons ONLY

↑ 6.2K 💬 800 text 2025

Why is working at McDonalds or Burger King always used as the default “easy job” or “minimum deserved pay” job?

↑ 5.8K 💬 3.4K question 2023

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/work, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/work?
r/work describes itself this way: Working life, good and bad. Jobs, careers, management, burnout, promotions, quitting, boredom, and the parts of work nobody puts in the job description. It was founded in 2008 and has 301.9K members.
How many members does r/work have?
r/work has about 304.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 105 of its posts; the biggest reached 31K upvotes, which is 102 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/work?
"Copied my male colleagues’ email style and told I’m being rude" reached 31K upvotes and 1.1K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/work.
What subreddits are similar to r/work?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers, r/Louisiana, r/popculture.
What kind of posts do best on r/work?
Of the posts we hold, 72% are text posts and 28% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/work?
Across 105 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 18:00 UTC (4K avg upvotes), Monday at 22:00 UTC (3.8K avg upvotes), Thursday at 16:00 UTC (2.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/work?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/work has 3.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/work, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.