<p>Workers are socially alienated, philosophers growingly argue, because of the constraints that work foists on their opportunities to establish and sustain personal relationships. These analyses are incomplete, however, for they neglect the socialization opportunities that work may involve. Leaning on recent views on the goods of personal relationships, I offer a more complete account of social alienation as the forgone socialization benefits of work relative to its socialization benefits. I first unpack the constituents of social alienation thus conceived. I next offer a view of the value of socialization benefits, whether off-work or on the job, relative to the density and quality of personal relationships, and discuss how the benefits of different kinds of relationship may bear on one another and be compared. I finally discuss potential reasons to discount the value of workplace relationships relative to the value of off-work relationships, given that workplace relationships are less voluntary and more instrumental to achieving aims external to the relationship.</p>