Question

orkplace romances, even where they are consensual
relationships between co-workers, can create some
difficult issues in the workplace. From a strictly legal
perspective, employers may want to discourage office
romances, but from a practical point of view it is
virtually impossible to prevent them. Discuss some of
the risks that an office romance poses from various
perspectives—to the couple involved, to co-workers,
and to the employer. Is a policy on office romances a
good idea and, if so, what should it include? Are there
any disadvantages to having such a policy

Answer 1

Some of the risks that an office romance poses:

• Favoritism is percieved by other employees
• lower credibility of the supervisor in the eyes of their team members
• employee morale is lowered of the partners involved in romance
• Potential conflicts of interest
• company policy gets violated
• Challenges to consistent enforcement of company policy
• Other employees may claim sexual harassment
• If the relationship breaks badly one of the partner will claim sexual harassment or discimination.
• other employes may start gossiping and spread fake rumors that can cause impact to the overall work environment and the longer term careers of the partners will be in risk.
• Privacy issues associated with employer inquiries into the romance

Yes, a policy on office romance is a good idea.

policies on office romance:

1. No public display of affection(PDA) policy: public display of affection may disract other people and can make them feel uncomfortable.They wont't focus on their work so the couple should not display their affection publicly.

2.Respect privacy: this is to respect the privacy of the couple. Company creates such policy to control the negative side of the affair and to keep the work environment healthy.

no i don't think that there is any disadvantage to these policies.