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It is not uncommon for people who work together, to get romantically involved in spite of advice against such relationships Is there any correlation between lo
by danielweber 12y ago
It is not uncommon for people who work together, to get romantically involved in spite of advice against such relationships
Is there any correlation between long work-weeks and romantic relationships between employees? Have any studies been done of this?
I'm reminded of Philip Greenspun's "How To Make Your Software Engineers Work 80 Hours A Week" article [1] about ArsDigita where he got his employees to work crazy hours while he was dating one of his employees. That's the part that was most offensive to me when I first read it years ago ("girlfriend for me but not for thee"). Other parts offend me more these days, but I'm still wondering if a good policy against sexual harassment is to make sure your employees have time outside of work to find someone to copulate with.
[1] http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/managing-software-engineers http://philip.greenspun.com/ancient-history/managing-softwar...
- ChuckMcM 12y agoThere is a strong correlation between romantic involvement and shared stressful experiences. Its a movie trope but there have also been studies done. The last one I read about was in Scientific American in the late 90's/early 2000's. You can check 'romantic relationships and stress' on scholar.google.com and find lots of hits. There is also a correlation between having an excuse to be close together and opportunity. This apparently got pretty bad for Microsoft employees on the road such that the company issued guidelines. But I don't know if corporate was any more or less affected.