Hey! My husband and I met in the workplace, and were married for several years, working in the same office, before anyone but our bosses up the line and one other person knew about it.
It’s not good to just ‘fool around’ with people in the workplace; but if a relationship between mature, sensible people becomes serious, it can be managed.
I have worked in THREE different companies where interpersonal relationships had a huge detrimental effect on production and morale (morals too!)...........Two of the companies were ‘eat up’ with nepotism. One, on my first day at work, when you are taken on the cook’s tour of the plant and grounds, I was warned by my escort to be careful what you say to people at work until you get to know everyone, because just about everyone was related to someone else in other departments....................