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Are Office Romances a Mistake?
In a Sidewalk Stories feature, BNET surveys managers and employees and gets the scoop on the good, bad and ugly of office romances.
Tags: Office Romance, Sidewalk Stories, Microsoft Office, Scoop, Marketing Research
Videos 2006-01-01

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Communication is key to dealing with office romance
Companies may not like it, but offices are fertile flirting grounds. Office romance can create managerial headaches, cost people jobs and result in messy lawsuits, but ignoring it won't make it go away. In fact, President Clinton's problems notwithstanding, office romances are flourishing, said Dennis Powers, associate professor...
Tags: American Management Association, Harassment, workplace
Research articles 1998-11-30
The end of the office affair? Face value.(Harry Stonecipher and the perils of office romance)
Harry Stonecipher and the perils of office romance LAST month, America's National Law Journal told its readers that "employment lawyers are warning lovestruck co-workers to take precautions in the office before locking lips outside". The advice came too late for Harry Stonecipher. The boss...
Tags: Boeing Co., E-mail
Research articles 2005-03-12
Office Romances Increasingly Out in the Open
Office romance may have been around for as long as there have been offices, but what was once a clandestine secret to be kept hidden from the disapproving eyes of HR, has become a more and more acceptable and open part of working life, the NY Times reports this week....
Tags: Microsoft Office, Jessica Stillman, Harassment, Times, Survey, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources
Blog posts 2007-10-12
Office Romance …is the company helpless?
We have all seen romance blossom at work and have also seen romance end in bitterness leaving the organization vulnerable to sexual harassment charges. Since employees are human beings it is impossible to prevent romance on the job. The days of the anti-fraternization policy, which never worked, are over. ...
Tags: Microsoft Office, HRZone, Harassment, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity
White papers 2000-10-08
Long hours and job insecurity are fertile ground for romance
IF the office romance existed in Lord Reith's day, no one thought to mention it to the boss. The great Scottish director-general was once horrified to catch a girl kissing her boyfriend on the sacred steps of Broadcasting House. Legend has it that she escaped with her job,...
Tags: Cooper, job, secretary
Research articles 1999-05-30
How to Make Love in the Office
The holiday season and office parties. Office parties and spiked punch bowls. Spiked punch bowls and a little carrying on. A little carrying on and . . . Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Jack Welch and Suzy Wetlaufer. Before you know it, there you are: the dread -- and yet...
Tags: CAREER, Handhelds, HARDWARE, PDAs, SOFTWARE, Southwest Airlines Co.
Research articles 2002-12-01
For Office Romance, Valentine's Day Can Lead to Disaster; Workplace Law Experts Say Clear Office Harassment Policies May Stop Cupid's Arrows From Turning Employees into Defendants
NEW YORK -- Valentine's Day: a time of heightened romantic sentiment and amorous overtures. But not in your office, unless you want to risk workplace conflicts, harassment allegations, embarrassing situations and winding up featured in the business section of your local newspaper. As employees work longer hours - often...
Tags: Clear, Harassment, workplace
Research articles 2006-02-06
Fishing Off the Company Pier
For several months, Ive been having a secret relationship with another executive at my company. We dont like living in the dark, but our company "frowns upon" office romance. She wants to take our relationship public, but I worry that it will hurt our careers with the company. Wheres the...
Tags: Professional development, Where's The Line?, Office Life, Personal Conduct, pier
Blog posts 2007-03-09
Meet Me at the Water Cooler. (Wink. Wink.)
Vault.com recently released the results of a survey on office romance. Valentine's Day has passed, but if you're looking for love between the hours of 9 to 5, you'll be happy to know that more than half of the 575 respondents have had a personal relationship with a colleague. Even...
Tags: Workforce Management, Human Resources, Career, Leslie Leite, Professional Development, Recruitment & Selection, Workplace
Blog posts 2007-02-15
Workplace romance no longer gets the kiss-off
Finding love at the office is more likely and less taboo than it was in the past, suggest two surveys on workplace romance to be released today. Forty percent of employees reported being involved in such a romance at some point in their careers, says a poll by the...
Tags: Opinion Research Corp.
Research articles 2006-02-09
Cupid's bottom line.(Matters Of The Heart)(workplace relationships )(Brief Article)
Unlucky in love? Chances are your odds at romance may be better if you start dating coworkers. In fact, workplace relationships numbered about 10 million in 2003, according to a Southern Oregon University study. And in 44 percent of cases, office dating has...
Tags: American Management Association, workplace
Research articles 2005-02-01
Fresh warnings take the romance out of Valentine's Day
PARIS AFP — British office workers were warned off making declarations of love and roses were banned at a Swedish school in a series of warnings that took the romance out of Valentine's Day. Also putting a downer on candle-lit dinners around the globe were warnings that romantic e-greetings...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Manufacturing
Research articles 2008-02-16
Weighing the Pros and Cons of Working from Home
Many people believe that working from home (sometimes known as "telecommuting" or "teleworking") is the ideal employment option. And for many it is. It frees them from having to battle commuter traffic and crowds, allows them to get their work done without the interruptions of a busy office, and leaves...
Tags: Home, Business Structures, E-mail, Benefits, Time Management, Telecommuting, Leadership, Finance, Online Communications, Human Resources, Productivity, Workforce Management, Harassment, Gender And Diversity, Others, Management, BNET Editorial
Articles 2007-11-13
Office Mate by Stephanie Losee and Helaine Olen |Book Brief
Office Mate by Stephanie Losee and Helaine Olen |Book BriefOffice Dating - Seems Selfish On All LevelsMorals and Ethics are actually on the rise in America. This book seems to be taking a step back in progress and more of a gimick to sell books. No study shows...
Tags: Microsoft Office, Office Mate, Stephanie Losee, superiority, Office Romances
Discussion threads 2008-04-24
Employers play third wheel in office romances; Resignation of World Bank chief highlights problems companies face when employees date.(News)
Byline: JUDY GREENWALD There are no ironclad guarantees that employers can protect themselves from liability as a result of workplace romance-an issue dominating recent World Bank news-but experts say companies can take steps to minimize that risk Byline: JUDY GREENWALD ...
Tags: workplace, World Bank
Research articles 2007-05-21
Cupid lurks in cubicles, so what's a worker to do?
The team of Amy Henry and Nick Warnock won Thursday's task on The Apprentice , and when Donald Trump put them aboard his corporate jet for a reward trip to Florida he told viewers: "They may be in love. If so, they had better not use my bedroom." That...
Tags: American Management Association, Amy, Apprentice, team, worker
Research articles 2004-04-02
'Wedding Crashers' steals top slot at North American box office
LOS ANGELES AFP — "Wedding Crashers" stole the top slot at the North American box office this weekend, raking in an estimated 20.4 million dollars, preliminary Hollywood industry figures showed. The film, starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as a pair of guys who masquerade as wedding guests and...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, box-office, Strategy
Research articles 2005-07-31
Romance heats up on 'ER,' 'Office'
THE OFFICE. 8:30 tonight, Channel 10. ER. 10 tonight, Channel 10. PRIME-TIME television will pretty much be a red zone - think Valentine's red - for at least the next week, but it didn't take a holiday to heat things up for "ER's" Parminder Nagra, who's spent a...
Tags: NBC Universal Inc., SOFTWARE
Research articles 2007-02-08
Survey says interoffice romances increasingly accepted by co-workers, bosses.
By Andrea Minarcek, Dayton Daily News, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 27--DAYTON, Ohio -- The taboo on office romance is fading. With deadlines to meet and bills to pay, Americans are showing less inclination for conventional matchmaker spots such as...
Tags: American Management Association, co-worker, husband, Ohio, survey, workplace
Research articles 2004-06-27
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