The HR Dept has many a time dealt with issues around relationships in the workplace. As today is Valentine's Day, we thought we would share some Q&A’s to highlight how relationships in the workplace can often be a troublesome issue for employers:
Last week I caught two of my young employees getting too close for comfort in the stationery cupboard! What do I do?
Whose comfort, yours or theirs? If you have a policy about workplace relationships, see each of them individually and make sure they understand the rules. If not, then spell out the rules in the meeting i.e. not wasting working time canoodling or sending loads of emails and text messages. We will send you some HR Dept tissues as the course of young love never does run smoothly.
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| Around 20% people meet their long term partner in the office |
One of my employees is saying they don't want Valentines flowers or chocolates around the office because of her beliefs, I’m at a loss.
Whilst we may believe that this is a commercially exploited event, St Valentine’s Day has been around since the Middle Ages and is a Christian celebration. Realistically disliking it is not going to count as a philosophical belief. Tell her to ignore the flowers and say you will eat her share of the chocs if they are handed round.
One of my staff is hoping her partner is going to propose on the 14th and wants to provisionally book the 15th off but able to cancel it if he does not.
Well let’s hope he does then or she will be absolutely no use to you on the 15th if he does not. Better she takes the holiday come what may.
If workplace romance is destroying productivity in your business, then speak to us!
