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

After Phillip Schofield at ITV and Bernard Looney at BP, tendency to ‘overcompensate’ could create other serious problems, say HR experts

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, has found that one in five people in the UK are married or in a civil partnership with someone they met at work.