A survey of more than a thousand employees of the company LiveCareer proved that about 75% of them have already had a romantic relationship with someone at work. However, although more than 75% of these people state that they believe that there are no problems with this, keeping a romance at work not recommended at all, according to the coach of career, Brandon Smith.
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More than 75% of employees say it's okay to have a romance with a co-worker
1100 LiveCareer employees were a source of research about affective relationships in the workplace and the result was surprising. About 75% of them have had a romance with each other. However, career coach Brandon Smith says that although it is normal to have a will – after all, work is a great environment to meet people with the same perspectives and lives similar to yours – for the sake of your job, it is good to avoid.
There are some companies that prohibit relationships between employees precisely because the chances of complicating the work environment due to this are high. However, 76% of employees surveyed said they had nothing wrong with relating to a co-worker and 71% still say they have nothing wrong even if that co-worker is theirs boss.
Relationship at work creates tensions
67% of employees said they knew someone who cheated on their spouse with a co-worker. However, even if the relationship strengthens between them and they become a couple, a relationship between colleagues can generate tensions. After all, someone can be fired at any time and the other not, someone can be promoted and another not, and if the relationship is with your boss, the situation becomes even more delicate.
Therefore, 75% of people believe that a relationship with the manager at work leads the employee to receive favoritism and 74% believe that the employee loses his productivity.
Important tips if you are in a relationship with someone at work
If you want to maintain a relationship with someone from your work, it's important to take some steps, and here are some of them, according to career coach Brandon Smith.
Your relationship needs to happen outside of work. It is very important to know how to separate things, after all, within the company, professionalism needs to be maintained. So, keeping yourself as just co-workers during working hours is essential, especially if you work in the same department.
Think about what would happen if the relationship didn't go forward. It is important to know this, after all, you would still see each other every day at work and this cannot affect the performance of either of you in the company.