rationale behind love contracts

First let us understand what love contracts are. It doesn’t stop people from falling in love. As employees spend a major portion of their time in the workplace, love is going to happen and no one can stop that from happening. But it has to be regulated in a workplace otherwise it could lead to severe repercussions. So there should be love contracts.

We also have to consider the types of relationship.

There are basically two types of relationship.

1. One is the relationship between a senior and junior.

2. Other is the relationship when both the partners are in the same position in the organization.

Some repercussion if there are no love contracts:-

1. Favoritism: - Basically this happens when relationship is of type 1.

There could be favoritism which could affect the moral of other employees.

As we saw in film Metro, KK Menon was in love with Kangana Ranaut and gave extra perks and benefits to what she deserved, so there was a clear case of favoritism. This also makes other employees discontented and it shifts the focus of other employees. They might feel that rather than working hard what matters is how I can engage in a relationship with my boss.

2. Generally when people are in a relationship they spend most of the time with each other. Their minds are more towards romantic relationship, than the work. Especially in the early part of their relationship their efficiency and effectiveness might decrease. Hence a love contract addresses this problem.

3. If there are no love contracts people might engage in sexual relationships within the organization. It affects the moral of other employees plus it affects the name of the company. As sexual relationship is a very sensitive issue, this thing will spread like fire within the organization and outside the organization. And who will be affected the most, obviously the company. People will say, Company X promotes sexual relationship. As a result no one would like to join that company. Parents would not want their child to work in that type of an organization.

4. What happens when relationship ends: - Generally there could be sexual harassment cases filed, which could bring a bad name to the company

There could be revenge atmosphere going on which could be detrimental for the company. As we saw in film Aitraaz, what happened after Priyanka Chopra was unable to get into a relationship with Akshay Kumar.

It takes several years to build the name and fame for the company, but it takes very less time to destroy it. So company has every right to take actions so that its name is not maligned even if has to restrict the behavior of employees. (Signing a love contract)

Let us look at what employees lose if they have to sign the love contracts:

They might feel that company is poking its nose into their relationship. They might feel that company has no right to poke into their privacy.

But as we saw above repercussions are very severe, so there should be love contracts and anyways love contract is not stopping them from loving each other, it is just regulating their behavior that too only within the organization.