Long gone are the days when we worried about people taking their work home with them. Now, conversely, what alarms those in charge is that we're conducting our personal lives in the office.

Such attempts to curb workplace relationships are futile. Having an office romance is like stealing the office stationary: everyone acknowledges it goes on, the powers-that-be don't approve, but it's seen as inevitable.

After all, simply everyone is at it. The latest statistics show that 70 per cent of us have had an office romance, while one in three of us has set up home with a work colleague. As for what goes on at the office Christmas party, thankfully no one's keeping count.

But is it any wonder? On average, we work a minimum 40-hour week and commute for a couple of hours each day. Add time for sleeping shopping and eating to the equation, and you're left with about an hour a day in which to meet and romance your future life partner. Some of us take more time choosing our shoes.

The point is that in nowdays, if you don't meet your other half in the office, where - and more importantly when - will you meet them?

The modern office is an ideal venue, in that it resembles a compact dating agency. It's an environment where you can find people of the opposite sex with similar interests, abilities and ambitions, who share your educational background.

Unlike most dating agencies, not only is this dating agency's services free, you actually get paid to use it.

To those who want to curb office romance, i say this ; you can no more legislate over hormones than you can rid a company of office politics. And you'd be foolish to try.

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