An overly aggressive person who insists on changing a non-hugger into a random hugger will only change a friendly work environment into a hostile one from one person's point of view. The Dating Game Romance in the office. It happens and it happens a lot. One co-worker is attracted to another. No, it is not.
Exaggerated persistence happens too.
One employee repeatedly asking another out for a date, despite a chain of rejections, is an annoyance. And soon, such a situation could easily escalate into sexual harassment. A similar situation occurs when one worker wants a friendship outside of work with an uninterested party. A person who does not want to mix business with friendship should not be coerced to sway in the other direction and may resent being asked for the 10th time to join someone on a shopping excursion. Suppose you arrive at work one day with a new hairstyle.