Employees of both sexes share the work environment, and a mishandled office romance can be disastrous for love, a life partnership, or a career. Avoid the pitfalls of love-at-work-from the corner office to the online "friend"-with this 21st-century guide.

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.

• Reveals original data from 774 adults who completed an online survey and interviews with 70 people who have experienced an office romance
• Provides a roadmap for navigating the brave new world of office romance that specifies the etiquette of workplace relationships and addresses issues involving email, text messages, Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter
• Contains chapters with compelling content such as "What HE is Thinking," "When the Office Romance Becomes Sexual," "Dating up and Down the Ranks," and "Marry Your Office Love?"
• Describes office policies, including love contracts

"This book is an eye-opener documenting and discussing everyday workplace romance. Today, millions of Americans will enter their workplaces to provide income, but find this will be the most important context to meet a lifelong companion. New survey data are provided with 70 interviews of workers who report indulging and navigating the office romance. Also included are 'love contracts' to ensure that no one, including the company, gets burned. Both workers and workplace managers will find insight into what is really going on when the sexes get together at their office." -- Dr. Marty Zusman, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University Northwest

About the Author

Jane Merrill is a professional writer whose published works include ten books and over 50 relationship articles for magazines such as Redbook, Vogue, and Cosmopolitan.

David Knox, PhD, is professor of sociology at East Carolina University, where he teaches courtship and marriage, marriage and family, and human sexuality.

Book Information
ISBN 9780313391293
Author Jane Merrill
Format Hardback
Page Count 215
Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc