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Office hazard: outsourcing love
Neelam Raaj
[ Saturday, March 11, 2006 10:01:23 pmTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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"Itâs difficult to keep these things under wraps. Sooner or later, the couple is found out, especially as they use the intranet or the office phone to make their assignations. But since the HR department isnât the morality police, all they have to do is maintain office decorum," says an HR manager, clarifying that the management seldom makes character judgements based on such clandestine relationships.
As for anything akin to the âlove contractsâ that have become common in the US, he says no policies have been formalised to deal with such eventualities. "Itâs done on a case-to-case basis since a warning or department transfer if they are in direct-reporting positions is usually enough."
So while a dalliance and sacking may not go hand in hand, office gossip, tension and the possibility of having to continue working with a paramour after the relationship's soured do make many think twice about l'affaire office.
Inputs from Sharmishta Koushik in Bangalore
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--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> Global womanOffice hazard: outsourcing love
Neelam Raaj
[ Saturday, March 11, 2006 10:01:23 pmTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]
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"Itâs difficult to keep these things under wraps. Sooner or later, the couple is found out, especially as they use the intranet or the office phone to make their assignations. But since the HR department isnât the morality police, all they have to do is maintain office decorum," says an HR manager, clarifying that the management seldom makes character judgements based on such clandestine relationships.
As for anything akin to the âlove contractsâ that have become common in the US, he says no policies have been formalised to deal with such eventualities. "Itâs done on a case-to-case basis since a warning or department transfer if they are in direct-reporting positions is usually enough."
So while a dalliance and sacking may not go hand in hand, office gossip, tension and the possibility of having to continue working with a paramour after the relationship's soured do make many think twice about l'affaire office.
Inputs from Sharmishta Koushik in Bangalore
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