Lovers at offices in India increase productivity
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 01 April 2009, 20:03 IST   |    6 Comments
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Lovers at offices in India increase productivity
Hyderabad: While many western companies discourage dating between workers within the organization, there seems to be no evidence of such discouragement in India. A study shows that people who are dating someone in their own office are reluctant to inform their superiors about this. A study on 'Relationships in Offices', and their implications on Indian companies by a group of management students at the Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad shows that about 36 percent of the respondents have dated someone within the organization, and 66 percent of them did not inform anyone about it. Fifty-six percent of the respondents feel that instances of romance in their offices are less than 10 percent. This perception could be because most of these romances go unreported. In India, there is a perception that many companies encourage this trend as it accrues benefits to the organization through reduced attrition, higher employee engagement, satisfied and happy employees through longer working hours at the workplace. The study was conducted out of curiosity about the difference in the way the western world treats the topic of 'Intra-Office' romances and the way it is looked at in India. Global HR policies are being followed in these companies more or less uniformly - especially on such issues. The study was administered to 100 plus IT Professionals in the software industry. Of these, nearly 32 percent were female respondents and 68 percent were male. According to Nasscom, the male to female ratio in the Indian IT Industry is 65:35. The sample study had a similar ratio of 67:32 of males to females, and thus the sample is representative of the population. Seventy percent of the respondents were unmarried and 30 percent were married. Only 20.56 percent of the respondents were aware of any company policy related to intra-office romances. While 43.93 percent of the respondents were sure that there is no such policy, 35.51 percent of the respondents were unaware of such policies.

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