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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rupert Neate

Are UK employers going too far with strict rules on workplace relationships?

Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby host This Morning
Phillip Schofield, left, and Holly Willoughby host This Morning. ITV introduced stricter rules on workplace relationships after his undisclosed relationship with a colleague. Photograph: S Meddle/ITV/Shutterstock

We spend so much time in the workplace, it is hardly surprising that many relationships begin there. But after a string of high-profile office relationship scandals, many companies are trying to make it harder to find love, a relationship, or a fling at work.

Research by the TUC, the unions umbrella body, from 2016 found that one in five (22%) people in the UK who are married or in a civil partnership met their other half at work.

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