Workplace relationship

Workplace romance rarely, if ever, remains between two people. Soon the rumor mill will get started. There are a lot of “creeps” (both men and women) out there in our workplaces here in The Gambia now a days. Employees and Staff should not assume that everything will be fine. Yes, love happens. But so does hate. I implore my countrymen to keep the romance out of the workplace given the saga that has erupted at the SSHFC. Companies and Government departments should strongly discourage their staff and employees from involving themselves in relationships with colleagues that they manage or report to. Parastatals and government departments should update their policies to require all Chairmen and Board of Directors to disclose any inter-office relationships that might have a conflict of interest attached to the Parastatals or government institutions. Individual staff or employees should think about the ramifications of a workplace relationship. If the relationship didn’t work out, would you still be able to work with the person ? If it did go well, and one of you got promoted over the other, how would that impact things? HR policy, not only ones relating to office romance, should hold an annual company-wide meeting or forum to revisit rules to see if they still make sense and so that every employee can feels that they have a voice. If everyone decides that we want to have these hard and fast rules that there should be no dating in the workplace, then there you go, you have your policy, I do feel that there should be a broader discussion. It shouldn't just be up to one person to make that decision. The person you’re dating may already be in a committed relationship. Imagine the embarrassment of finding this out through a nasty phone call or email from a furious significant other ?