More Confident Less Careful: Why Office Romances Are Hard to Manage

If everything you knew about office life came from NBC’s serial mockumentary ”The Office ” you would be forgiven for thinking romance is the main spice of workplace life. Yet the hit show confirms with satire what recent studies have demonstrated with numbers: Romances shape office life and human resource departments don’t have much to say about it. But given the potential fallout from workplace relationships companies retreat on this issue at their own risk suggest a number of experts. As one HR professional puts it: ”There is a feeling of resignation among HR people. Mostly they close their eyes and hope for the best.”

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