Google and Facebook’s new dating policy

Sometimes, they flirt, and that may lead to dating, relationships, and marriage. On the other hand, flirting may lead to friction, disagreements, and trouble. While it is too long to quote here, the policy objective is clear: Although this policy does not prevent the development of friendships or romantic relationships between co-workers, it does establish boundaries as to how relationships are conducted during working hours and within the working environment.

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Take from an overjoyed-in-her-marriage woman with adorable children: My children wouldn’t exist if this policy were in place when heminator and I worked together. On the other hand, how many cases of sexual harassment would never have happened if the pursuer had been forced by company rules to take no for an answer? Policy is all about trade-offs, my friends: One rule at Facebook Inc. Employees are only allowed to ask a co-worker out once. Facebook says it trusts its employees to disclose a relationship when there is a conflict of interest.

Failure to do so will lead to disciplinary action. But real life is never as cut and dried as the scenarios that appear in sexual-harassment training modules.