My -worker is gay. What should I do? - Boundls

We spend most of our wakg hours at our jobs (one-third of our lifetim to be exact). It seems evable that worker csh will, om time-to-time, arise. As humans, we have a basic need for timacy and nnectn, but when we add attractn to this mix, there is bound to be another layer of plitn. How do that impact , our work, and our relatnship wh our peers? Profsor Sean Horan and Profsor Rebec Chory have spent most of their reers tryg to unrstand the implitns of havg a romantic relatnship at work — both on our performance and on our team members. Across three studi, they found that employe were more likely to lie to, distst, and fd peers datg their superrs ls rg than peers datg other peers. Though the studi ially foced on heterosexual relatnships, they also found siar rults a fal study examg gay and lbian romanc at work.