Go On, Date Your Co-Workers

Ms. Kelly writes about internet culture.

Last year, I developed an office crush. My friends warned me against doing anything about it, typically using a crude metaphor about keeping your eating space clean. Dating people you work with just seems like too much trouble these days. It’s not that people aren’t attracted to Jack in client relations with the smile lines and overzealous David Lynch obsession; it’s that it feels as if the risk outweighs the reward.

But a return to office romance could be the solution to the sense many people have that modern dating is broken. Dating apps ask us to consider potential romantic partners not as full human beings with a caffeine addiction and........

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