Dating in the workplace

From a game perspective, that makes a lot of sense. InfoSec and all and it's far easier to monitor people in house.

I was thinking though, HR would have a field day with this. Nepotism?! No no no.

Anyway the thought crossed my mind if you wanted to stir the pot a little more, you'd make people in organizations with HR be required to have relationships outside of their workplace. This would encourage both conflict and RP in those organizations without having to do near anything else. People having a relationship in another organization are more vulnerable to leak things, turning lovers against their organization, all kinds of things. At the very least it would promote more fraternization and thus conflict between organizations. Additionally, you'd have another layer of illicit romance in terms of inter company romances that are sure to bloom despite the policy.

If this idea was taken seriously I think you would want to probably have some kind of grandfather clause for people who have established relationships. Maybe they could file a one time waiver with their corp while the policy was being enacted to be exempt. After that, in organization relationships would be verboten and they would naturally phase out over time as couples break up or are retired for other reasons.

Every logical reason would say keep it in house for lots of game reasons.

If only one organization did it... well... it would just be a temporary thing that wouldn't last very long. Nor would it achieve the goal of mixing groups more to encourage RP and conflict.

I would think there would be significant pushback from certain in game elements that would make this hard to do without something like the recent changes on promotion eligibility to drive it.

However, like with service mixers, it may take some blunt GM guidance to make people realize that this kind of behavior is unrealistic to a high degree. And that these types of relationships shouldn't be actively encouraged.

However, I do not feel that people should be targeted for their relationships ICly or OOCly. I think that this shift should purely be a cultural thing. Perhaps mandates from HR at the top level that open fraternization and relationships within the workplace is not to be tolerated. That your business is your business. But keep it exceptionally private. Or perhaps during reviews, have them bring up any open relationships you might have. And explain your motivations for them and if they will interfere with your work in anyway. Or if you had a significant event in the workplace, lasciviously kissing, actually kissing whatsoever on the lips at the workplace, or coming to work smelling like sex, up too moosexing in the office. These should probably be noted and brought up during reviews and cycled around as things not to do.

I do see both sides of this argument. However, there does seem to be a bit meta strategy in the keeping relationships within the corp, as it works as a good insulating factor to keep people from leaking data outside the corp.