Things we will miss
Office romances
Offices don’t just breed ideas and innovation, they’ve long been fertile grounds for love. It’s hardly surprising. Managers might well disapprove, but when office culture is such that people regularly put in eight-hour or longer daily stints, inter-colleague collaboration can quickly turn into something much more, especially when studies reveal some people’s entire social sphere is through work.
Data from CareerBuilder shows 36 per cent of office workers have, at some point, dated a colleague, with between 10 and 25 per cent of marriages thought to originate from romances that blossomed in the office. Office workers are serial matchmakers too, often introducing colleagues to their own circle of friends.