Are you considering a relationship with a co-worker? Read this before you make your move

Office romances are inevitable. They're also risky.

The firing of McDonald’s MCD, +1.04% CEO Steve Easterbrook because of a consensual relationship with an employee is just the latest reminder that office relationships are tricky terrain, and can end badly if they aren’t handled carefully, experts tell MarketWatch.

Know your employer’s policy on office relationships Workers have very few legal protections against being fired for an office relationship, according to Paula Brantner, principal and president of PB Work Solutions, which consults with companies and organizations on stopping workplace harassment and toxic workplaces. “The default in the American workplace is employment at will,” she noted.

Almost 80% of companies frown on subordinate-manager dating, according to a survey released last summer by the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. That’s up from 70% in January 2018. Signing a love contract? Make sure to read the fine print Companies can address an office relationship through a “love contract,” said Jessica Methot, and associate professor of human-resource management in the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations and a distinguished research professor at the University of Exeter.

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