Monday 26 May 2014

Love relationships at work


Some people believe that love relationships at work are acceptable, although they might harm their works and career prospect. How do you feel about this?

According to "Kissing colleagues", the article shows the answer to the question about what employee can do when they know an affair between 2 co-workers in their team. Thorn Jenness, an executive coach and HR consultant in Huntington, suggests that you should look beyond their personal behaviors, and just focus on things you can control unless the behaviors impact you directly or effect the team's productivity.


After reading the article, it reminds me a story that happened to another team when I was still working for a company. It's a story about a married man, who is a manager, falls in love with his subordinate. Although he knows that she already has a boyfriend, he still takes care of her very well such as picking her up after client visiting, transferring his sales as her performance, and etc. For this reason, another his subordinate decided to resign from the company because he couldn't archive the sales budget and felt he was treated unfairly. Finally, about one year later, the woman decided to quit from the firm,and started her own business with her boyfriend.

This story gave an example how love relationships at work impacted their career. If they both had been single, I would haven't supported them to develop their relationship as lover. I believe that love relationship at work brings several drawbacks, which they can't avoid. For example, normally, when a lover gets into trouble or having a personal quarrel, they both often stay away from each other and do their own business without talking. Consequently, If this situation happens among co-workers, it definitely makes an impact to team's productivity. Although they are not in the same team, It's quite difficult to be concentrated on their own works while facing each other at the workplace. For this reason, I don't think loving anyone in the workplace is a good idea. 
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Reference
Schoenberger, C. (2013, August 26). BBC Capital work ethic. Retrieved May 26, 2014 from http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20130826-kissing-co-workers
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3 comments:

  1. Parichat Panyawisitkul27 May 2014 at 07:58

    I heard that some workplaces didn't allow their employees to have an affair at work. In my opinion, affair at work can cause much problem, but I think if you can manage your work, and separate your personal live from it, affair at work could be acceptable.

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  2. Unknown27 May 2014 at 15:34

    I agree with you that love relationships at work would lead to many problems. It is very hard to concentrate on your own work if there is something more interesting. Consequently, either work or relationship can develop in the same time.

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  3. Unknown28 May 2014 at 00:23

    I agree on your post that say love in workplace cause many troubles to workers.
    No matter what, their couple is whether in higher position or same as them. their relationships must be seen by their co-works that also raise some gossip or homour about the couple.

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