Coworkers
Coworkers in a dream mirror the balance between cooperation and competition. Work going well together foretells synergy, and giving and receiving help means gain arriving through people. Quarrelling, by contrast, signals a call to check how the work is divided, and a coworker doing your job means your own share is blurring. A colleague who left appearing again can mean the way you worked back then is what you need now.
A colleague in a dream reflects a place where cooperation and competition sit together. Traditional reading treated those beside you as a mirror, and separated the meanings by whether the work went smoothly or you clashed.
Readings by Situation
Work going well with a colleague
A good sign that you are in step. Tradition read achieving together as strength being added to yours. If you have something joint ahead, this reads well.
Clashing with a colleague
A sign of comparison, or of something left unsaid. It is not a forecast of a real quarrel. Sometimes it points to a conversation you have deferred.
A colleague getting ahead of you
A scene built from impatience. Tradition sometimes read another going first as a call to ready your own turn. Read it as looking at your own share rather than comparing.
A colleague leaving
The feeling that a hand you relied on is going. It does not forecast an actual departure. It comes up when the share you have to carry alone feels heavier.
A dream of a coworker does not foretell what will actually happen at work. Often the person in the dream is not someone you are close to — and the less close they are, the more the dream is about your own position, not about them.