Many people are young, single, and don't yet have a family. They want more opportunities to meet people.
Not that I think work should be where people find relationships, but rather that different age groups have different needs and desires.
Not that I think work should be where people find relationships, but rather that different age groups have different needs and desires.
Full-time employees spend nearly all of their active hours at work. If they do not find relationships / friendships there, where and when will they?
I maintain that having sex with coworkers is ill-advised, but not for the same reasons as employers and their HR departments.
Because of the plitical climate. Very few people would be inclined to pursure romantic relationships with coworkers. Meanwhile people at the same coworking space is a fair game. I am speaking from my own experience. The bad thing is it also becomes like high school. Because there's no HR policy to keep people in check.
Perhaps this is not ideal?
Work relationships used to be not only completely normal, but expected and accepted.
I met my wife of 20 years at work. There were whole universities that had reputations as places where people went to get enough education to land an office job so they could find a spouse.
It is only in the last ten years it so that work relationships have become taboo, as HR departments seem to completely eliminate the risk of inappropriate relationships caused by a minuscule minority of bad bosses and the accompanying legal and financial response from eager lawyers.
While I find the notion of "inappropriate relationships" amusing and only really serving the interests of employers, I still consider it all-advised to have sex with coworkers. This really only matters where people have power or have a career to think about. People with low-accountability roles need not worry about it.
Regardless, I encourage single people to look outside of the workplace.
My own experience is that there is more than "a minuscule minority of bad bosses" that lead to problems.
At my old company, there were two main offices - one in an office park in the suburbs for the "grownups" and a smaller one in a hip part of downtown for the "kiddies".
I worked remotely the entire time and that company also had a large percentage of remote folks like me, this was years before Covid.
tl;dr for a lot of younger/single people, work can be a big part of one's social life.