This is a key point. While I might disagree with the parent's phrasing of the issue, we are in a workforce that's increasingly 'workaholic' (as you said), pride

This is a key point. While I might disagree with the parent's phrasing of the issue, we are in a workforce that's increasingly 'workaholic' (as you said), prides itself on working late nights and weekends, yet we still hold all the same social pressures of finding mates -- at this rate, it's basically inevitable that at some point the main place to arrange these sorts of things will be the workplace. That doesn't mean literal harassment is ok by any stretch of the imagination of course, but we should really be mindful of how we're defining these social 'rules' in light of our changing social climate... To view it from a slightly different perspective, just look to Japan and their current problems with an increasingly disinterested/romantically-jaded population -- their entire culture is based around their work ethic, and now their population rates are dropping: http://theweek.com/article/index/254923/everything-you-need-to-know-about-japans-population-crisis http://theweek.com/article/index/254923/everything-you-need-...