According to the experts, the exhaustive working days, the projects that require forming work teams and the increasingly smaller offices where coexistence is even closer, please the emergence of relationships between colleagues.
A Wall Street Journal poll revealed that 40% of respondents confessed to having an office romance at some point in their career.
And the question arises, is it convenient to have relationships in the office?
Reasons not to support them
While it is true that offices and offices have been erected as places of social and loving (and, of course, sexual) meeting, there are some reasons why we should think twice if it is worth continuing with flirting.
The problem does not lie in the relationship itself, but in that:
- These romances can become the starting point of favoritism and conflicts of interest.
- On many occasions, these relationships do not know how to properly manage and hinder the work environment, particularly in the case of love affairs between superiors and subordinates, since these relationships could cause unfair and unethical treatment.
- In the case of a male and married boss, who has a relationship with a married or single subordinate, it is difficult for those involved to declare their relationship formally and will try to keep it hidden.
- Office romances create inconveniences in terms of performance and work performance.
- The talent of those involved is wasted. In this sense, the company have a contingency plan so that people can be relocated in areas where their individual productivity is not impaired by the closeness of the loved one.
- Other employees may feel that they are receiving fewer benefits and opportunities compared to the “favorite employee”, who will have the same position, the same responsibility and the same workload. If this happens, the work environment is weakened, while the “favorite” becomes the fixed target of rumors, jealousies and resentments.
- In the worst scenario, this person or those involved, will end up being dismissed, transferred to other areas of the company or else, they will renounce the company to avoid being victims of possible offenses.
Permitted? Many companies do not contemplate prohibitions regarding the possibility of love arising from employees, as long as these relationships do not affect or interfere with their functions, or endanger the unity of the work team
