That's What She Said!” Are You Ready To Handle Millennials Office Affairs?

You may say, it’s a brave new world for office romance, especially among young millennial cubicles. Almostonethird believe it is acceptable to dip your pen in company ink.

Our VP of sales would hire people solely on their willingness to sleep with her. It made work a lot of shit work for the rest of us and we all grew to resent him.

I met my Significant Other at work. We had to keep our romance secret to the point that we still have to lie to our co-workers about our anniversary.

A co-worker of mine and a lady from HR thought they were being secretive. Turns out, the husband found out and shot the guy in the eye. My co-worker has been in a vegetative state since. The HR still works here.

Over the past few years, workplace fraternization is becoming more acceptable, especially among the millennial workforce. According to the results published by Vault. com (2016), 51% of business professionals have been involved in some sort of workplace relationship; 42% have had an ongoing, casual relationship with their co-worker; 36% participated in a random office hookup; 29% were involved in a long-term serious relationship with their co-worker; and 16% were lucky enough to meet their Significant Other at work. Of the entire number, 64% disposed to look on the bright side, and said they would do it again.

As per a 2012 poll by work-life and benefits consultants Workplace Options, the millennial generation is blithely unaware of how messy workplace liaisons can get. Consider this: 84% of 18-to-29-year-olds say they’d date a coworker, compared to, 36% Gen Xers and only 29% of Boomers.

You may say, it’s a brave new world for office romance, especially among young millennial cubicles. Almost one-third of millennials believe dating in office is de rigeur, even expected, almost. Another survey by Vault (2016), says 44% of Millennials have been involved in an office relationship, compared to 59% for Gen X, and 66% for Baby Boomers.