The Workplace Comedy and Its Found Family
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Setting a comedy inside an office, shop or shared workplace gives writers a built in reason for an eclectic group of people to spend most of their time together, regardless of whether they would ever have chosen each other's company outside of their shared employment.
This structure naturally produces a found family dynamic, since colleagues forced into proximity develop genuine affection alongside ordinary workplace friction. The tension between professional obligation and real personal warmth gives the workplace comedy a distinct emotional texture that purely domestic sitcoms rarely achieve quite as naturally.
The format also allows for a constant, believable stream of new material, since fresh tasks, projects and minor crises can arrive plausibly from outside the group itself. That external pressure keeps storylines feeling organic rather than manufactured purely for the sake of conflict between colleagues who already like each other.