Statistics indicate that a surprising number of relationships begin in the office place.
Many of those same relationships do not last, and in fact quite often end with some degree of acrimony on the part of one or both of the players. It is intended to cause all parties to take a dispassionate look at the implications of an office romance and how it affects not only the direct participants, but those around them. The parties' failure to follow their agreement may also have some legal consequences. It may, for example, place the employer in a superior position to alter one or both of their positions in the organization, to defend its own actions and behaviour should a sexual harassment complaint arise, or, in the extreme circumstance, to take the position of cause for termination. By necessity, much of the content of the agreement revolves around statements of the parties' rights and obligations.