According to a 2008 Vault (http://www.vault.com/surveys/), approximately 46% of employees in the U.S. was involved in at least once a romance in the company. And 13% would well prepared to be. 50% have worked at least for a time with colleagues who between them had a report to the office.
begin to say that if the thing does not happen between peers or between consenting affair easily overflows in plagiarism, the harassment, bordering on violence. And, as there is between these cases those who are married, some of the stories are stories we are adulterous (48% respond that they are aware of at least one story underground in the office). Finally, we need to distinguish the stories of love than "just sex", the long stories from the "one night stand", etc.. But
dedicate ourselves to cases in which there is no significant downside. The phenomenon is related the new social styles. The increase in singles, first of all. There are more in the labor force (in the U.S. increased by 22% in ten years) and those aged between 25 and 35 years working more and more, spend more hours in the office (8% increase since 1970 ). For this, they have many other opportunities to seek and perhaps find your soul mate! In the words of Mark J. Penn (http://www.microtrending.com/), work has become the single-bar in the twenty-first century.
behaviors of men and women are different. As expected, there are more men than women flirt at work. This means that some of the advances that women suffer not like. But even that part of these stories is gay. This is also another social dynamics behind these data.
Finally, do not underestimate the process of emancipation of women, which leads to the most important roles in work and more active and less inhibited in seeking soul mate.
And the companies, what do you think? A traditional position was to discourage and do not accept this. But recently many directions of Human Resources has started to think, or to recognize that you love (which often marry) in the same company can be a factor aggregation, a factor which increases the sense of company loyalty. Maybe it's time to build real policies on the "love of the office."
