· machCon · New Ways of Working · 1 min read
A Tale as old as Time
Workplace romances have existed for centuries. A look at how romantic relationships between colleagues are perceived and managed in modern organizations.
In A survey from the US’s Society for Human Resource Management half of the respondents admitted that they have fancied a colleague at work at some point in time. And three quarters of the correspondents said that they were fine with colleagues dating each other. Workplace romances have existed for decades, if not centuries. As far back as the 1800s, there were discussions about people becoming attracted to each other in the workplace. According to the critics at the time they were talking about women and men in offices engaging in “behaviors that had no name”.
