Are office romances a development of the last couple of years? I don’t think so, yet the line “these days it is unusual to find someone who has never had an office romance”, would suggest that is the case.
Put single (or, yes, even attached) people together in just about any regular setting, such as a workplace, and romance will bloom. There’s nothing new, or “these days”, about it.
After all there’s an old adage that goes something like, “the best way to get to know someone is to either work, or live, with them.” So why not trawl the workplace for a life partner?
Love at work has usually been regarded as bad for business. But enlightened employers have begun to realise office romances are inevitable in a culture of long hours when staff have no time for a social life. Now openness is the new buzz word. These days it is unusual to find someone who has never had an office romance. Given delayed marriage, fewer sex-segregated workplaces, and the number of horny divorcees around the coffee machine, you have to wonder: where else do people meet if not on the job? An online survey this year of more than 1000 Australians found 80 per cent consider their workplace an appropriate hunting ground for romance.
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