Office crushes, in all their mercurial glory and pain, continue to shape our working lives in deeply meaningful ways.
But through all these changing norms, workplace crushes remain remarkably common.
Jim, after all, doesn't even ask Pam on a date until the season-three finale of "The Office."
That most workplace crushes never lead to consummated relationships doesn't make them any less powerful.
An admitted serial crusher, she still gets work crushes — last year she counted "a solid eight."
Persons:
Derek, Brendan, Michael Rosenfeld, Manny, Sean Horan, we're, she'd, Karis, Stefan, Darcy, —, Helen Fisher, Lakshmi Rengarajan, Rengarajan, smolder, Jim, Pam, I've, it's, I'd, Slack, Mikel Jaso, didn't, couldn't, weirdly, they'd, Johnny C, Taylor Jr, MeToo, Ayear, Tiana Reid, texted Derek, Alexandra Molotkow
Organizations:
Society for Human Resource Management, Stanford, Fairfield University, Match.com, BI Karis, Society for Human, York University
Locations:
New York City, Singapore, Brendan's, New York, Chicago, Toronto