Should I date my coworker?

The topic of office romance is a very relevant one since we spend so much time at work these days. Due to legal issues, most companies have put policies in place so that office romance can hurt you. Despite that women often write How to seduce my boss and men fantasize about seducing their secretaries. Teachers and students too have relationships in universities. However, as Paul Wolfowitz found out, dating your colleagues is risky.

These policies have been written by management and the legal department but that is not how the employees feel. An online survey by CareerBuilder found a significant drop in the number of workers who are keeping an office romance a secret, down from 46 percent in 2005 to 34 percent in 2007. About half of workers say they have dated a co-worker. By the way, if you are single, try our free dating website.

While there is a rationale for dating your coworkers I still have problems with it even if your employer does not ban it or even encourages it. In the workplace, we already find that people have their favorites and that often causes unfair outcomes during promotion and bonuses. Once we know that someone is dating a boss or an assistant, it makes everyone else look at them with a bias that they are not going to be able to take fair decisions.

Plus, once you breakup, it is hard to get any work done. In other words, it is best for everyone that you simply do not date your colleagues.