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I keep reading threads about how people treat work as if it's high school now, and how work place relationships are bad and how it "didn't happen back in the day" and it literally occurred to me that workplaces are just more 50/50 these days than they used to be.
When I first started working, there were a few women (in lower positions) and mostly men (in the more senior positions). Many women worked in "womencentric" careers such as nursing or teaching, but it's a different world these days and if you work with 100 people, and many are single, then of course, it's a natural place to find someone that you're attracted/connected to.
Thoughts?
It's more to to the changing workplace ethics of the younger generation.
It's the generational change of society's rules.
It's more due to age group.
https://www.inc.com/chas-rampenthal/...-it-legal.html
... according to a recent Workplace Options survey, nearly 85% of 18-29 year olds would have a romantic relationship with a co-worker, compared to just over 35% for 30-46 year olds and about 30% of 47-66 year olds. Even more shocking is that 40% of those 18-29 year olds would date their supervisors.
I see the complete opposite: it seems much less acceptable to date in the workplace now than 20 or 30 years ago. I can't imagine doing it. Not only is it just a really bad idea due to proximity and professionalism, but it's also been explicitly against company policy everywhere I've worked unless you were already in the relationship when you began working. I couldn't even date someone who works in a different building and whose job never intersects with mine.
I see the complete opposite: it seems much less acceptable to date in the workplace now than 20 or 30 years ago. I can't imagine doing it. Not only is it just a really bad idea due to proximity and professionalism, but it's also been explicitly against company policy everywhere I've worked unless you were already in the relationship when you began working. I couldn't even date someone who works in a different building and whose job never intersects with mine.
Unlesd it was between a supervisor and their employees, no company has never had policy against it. If I'm wrong, name me an industry that has this so called rule?
Work relationships have always been a thing. People just weren't as open about it.
Anytime men and women are around each other, it's happening.
Yeah, come company Christmas party time...that's when people forget that they are co-workers, and that cute gal from payroll becomes a likely prospect.
I see the complete opposite: it seems much less acceptable to date in the workplace now than 20 or 30 years ago. I can't imagine doing it. Not only is it just a really bad idea due to proximity and professionalism, but it's also been explicitly against company policy everywhere I've worked unless you were already in the relationship when you began working. I couldn't even date someone who works in a different building and whose job never intersects with mine.
Absolutely. 50 years ago, women would often work in their 20s until they got married or pregnant and they were typically relegated to pink collar jobs like clerical work, nursing, or teaching. In the first two, many women would meet men (professionals, doctors) at their workplace. They didn’t have an option for professional growth and the pay was not awesome in many circumstances.
Now that we have a lot of older women in higher level positions who are career focused, they aren’t interested in stalling their careers for some relationship. It was definitely more common 20 years ago (in my experience) than it is now, with more people realizing the negative effects of dating in the workplace. With online dating and apps, there is less of a reason to meet people in the workplace. 20 years ago, online dating was still relatively new. I knew maybe one or two people who met their spouse via online dating, but it was rare.
Now that we have a lot of older women in higher level positions who are career focused, they aren’t interested in stalling their careers for some relationship.
This does make me curious about the professional women that still want to be able to do both though. Some make it apparent in their profiles that "work keeps her busy, and he must understand that". It kind of sends a red flag. A have your cake and eat it too situation. You can't have it all. I don't get having to work on your days off, when you really don't need to.
From what I've seen/heard personally, it's usually people who want a little something extra on the side, or people with just absolutely nothing going on in their personal lives.
It's unprofessional either way. Get a hobby.
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