Most companies and almost all of the major American Fortune 500 companies do not allow employees to date and have policies against it. It can cause a big problem at work. As always, there are love triangles, dating employees, and even sex at work. You can imagine the issues that are involved and the possible lawsuits if something goes wrong.
Worse still, once a relationship can end, workplace communication can suffer because people are upset with each other and those around them feel uncomfortable. This is a great way to destroy workplace productivity and can even become dangerous.
There are numerous case studies in HR manuals that describe such things and there are many lawsuits resulting from employees having sex on the job while dating someone they work with. Once the relationship ends, it can even cause sexual harassment lawsuits and cost the company millions of thousands of dollars.
Even in small companies it makes sense to have a dating policy for employees and let people know that it is not allowed and obviously sex at work should not be allowed, although you would think people would be smarter than that.
In one case that resulted in a lawsuit, the employee handbook did not say that employees could not have sexual relations, it only referred to sexual harassment and dating of employees. Neither of the two people involved were stalking each other because they were too busy having sex and didn’t plan on dating after they broke up.
They were both fired, but in court they said they were just having a quickie and due to the lack of entry in the employee’s operations manual, they won their case and both employees had to pay tens of thousands of dollars due to the dismissal lawsuit. unjustified. It goes without saying that communication skills in the workplace do not include having sex, there are other ways to communicate. Please consider all this in 2006.