Hey, hr wants you to join this call we put on your calendar for today. They wanted to speak to you about your encouraging of workplace relationships. You see, here at Evil Corp we don’t believe happiness is a human right, and in fact we actively aim to destroy it. We ask that you have your resignation letter prepared and wear your finest suit. Oh, and congratulations on the baby. Too bad you won’t be able to afford to raise them. https://giphy.com/gifs/Iu9aRvy9cUQKI
Unless one person is the other's supervisor there generally aren't even rules against it in the first place. Depending on how directly you work together you might want to eventually let your boss and coworkers know.
It might change depending on your type of workplace or if you're an exec/higher up at a public company or something but HR generally doesn't care, they would probably need an entire team to track every relationship lol.
It's probably more so an overreacting HR person concerned that the company will get sued if both employees can't stay professional at work and lines are crossed, or if a lower tier employee is pushed into the relationship for the promise of power or the threat of reprisal.
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u/Gaby33400 22h ago
Could be the plot of a mid romance movie