Gen Z and Millennials Want Workplace Romance Normalized—Even If It Breaks Company Rules

Employees say the workplace is their best chance of meeting their future spouse without dating apps.

BY BRUCE CRUMLEY @BRUCEC_INC

The enormous public attention—and considerable condemnation—uncorked last year by the workplace tryst revealed in the infamous Coldplay “kiss cam” seemed to justify the ban that many companies place on coworkers getting romantic. But new survey data doesn’t just show most employees disapprove of businesses keeping their would-be Romeos and Juliets apart. Incredibly, 43 percent of the people who said they’d ignored the prohibition wound up marrying the colleague they’d dated.

Data indicates just over a third of companies have formal rules against coworkers pitching woo, and........

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