I believe professional life should always be kept apart from personal life even though the boundaries have blurred these days. When it comes to sexual attraction between two people in workplace, I guess that's inevitable. But this behavior should not affect the organization in any way. Honestly speaking humans are not gods who won't fault and moreover, whatever may be the number of contracts a person signs, that won't stop him/her from getting attracted to someone. Here I would also like to make a point, that in workplace considering the tremendous work pressure, and the fact that they see each other for a major part of the day , the attraction might be just superficial and thus there might be a good chance of a break up. Considering this, think of a situation in which a relation ends up very sourly. Would their work life be the same again with them working together in the same place and seeing each other everyday? They might not be able to give their 100 % to their professional life any more. Thus in such cases one has to strictly stick to the professional code of conduct.
So just because this problem is unavoidable, one has to accept it and deal with it. Loosening grip to a certain degree is good because if the relation in true and genuine, their commitment to the organization would increase as they would enjoy their workplace and would like to work together. But this shouldn't result in any unacceptable public behavior which can cause discomfort to others. Any such behavior should be strictly dealt with.
I also think that if a company is very much hush-hush and restrictive about such behavior,cases will only increase. Thus it should instead acknowledge the fact and find ways to deal with it. One solution can be to separate them into different divisions if possible so one doesn't have any direct power influence on the other. Making them sign a 'love contact' is actually necessary as this is the only way to deal with unwanted situations legally and this way the employees should be made clear as to what is expected of them in their workplace.
So just because this problem is unavoidable, one has to accept it and deal with it. Loosening grip to a certain degree is good because if the relation in true and genuine, their commitment to the organization would increase as they would enjoy their workplace and would like to work together. But this shouldn't result in any unacceptable public behavior which can cause discomfort to others. Any such behavior should be strictly dealt with.
I also think that if a company is very much hush-hush and restrictive about such behavior,cases will only increase. Thus it should instead acknowledge the fact and find ways to deal with it. One solution can be to separate them into different divisions if possible so one doesn't have any direct power influence on the other. Making them sign a 'love contact' is actually necessary as this is the only way to deal with unwanted situations legally and this way the employees should be made clear as to what is expected of them in their workplace.
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