>This is such a thorny ugly issue to which there are really no right answers. It should be very clear that using a position of authority to coerce someone into

>This is such a thorny ugly issue to which there are really no right answers. It should be very clear that using a position of authority to coerce someone into a relationship of any kind is wrong. But at the same time it's pretty much impossible to prevent people from dating within the work place. It's actually pretty simple. The problem isn't co-workers dating. The problem is people in a position of power dating someone that reports to them. There's a handful of of options here. 1) Don't do it 2) If it is actually legitimate and not coerced, you reassign one of them to a separate team and completely remove them from the reporting chain and any impact on the other's career. 3) If it is actually legitimate and not coerced, one of them resigns. 4) If it is coerced, you fire the shit out of the person in power. If it's two people that are not in each other's reporting chain and one isn't subordinate to the other, or there isn't some other reason one could have an outsized impact on the other's career, it's generally not the same sort of issue.