Finding love from 9 to 5
Subtitle: trade secrets of office romance
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780313391293
Description: Overview: The typical workplace offers constant opportunities for face-to-face communication and social interaction. Individuals within a work environment have common experiences, share the same frustrations or feelings, and can easily garner details about one another from simple observation and casual conversation. It is not surprising that workplace romances happen so frequently, making it a topic of great interest to far more individuals than those who work in Human Resources departments. Finding Love from 9 to 5: Trade Secrets of Office Romance is not about workplace misbehavior. It's about love relationships that begin-and sometimes end-on company time, regardless of whether these individuals work in the same physical environment or not. Powerful emotions can and do ignite via a virtual connection as easily as in an actual shared workplace environment-real relationships spark in either context. This book is for anyone who has fallen in or out of love in the workplace, the single person who is dreaming of or on the brink of an office romance, and colleagues and supervisors who must learn to live and work among those involved in "in-house" relationships.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Preface; title: 1: Who's playing at work?: the new internet survey of 774 and 70 interviews; title: 2: Eleven types of office loves; title: 3: Upside of office romances; title: 4: Virtual office: love online; title: 5: Office romance etiquette; title: 6: Dating up and down the ranks; title: 7: What he is thinking; title: 8: What she is thinking; title: 9: Men to avoid at the office; title: 10: Men to include in your office search; title: 11: Should you marry your office love?; title: 12: Trade secrets of the ultimate office romance; title: 13: When the office romance becomes sexual; title: 14: Eight stories of office romance; title: 15: Being in business/working together; title: 16: If the office romance ends; title: 17: Office romance policies and sexual harassment; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix A: Office romance survey; title: Appendix B: Interview questions; title: Notes; title: Index