At the end of the day, you want someone who is just as interesting around a conference room table as they are in a dimly lit dive bar.

Instead of having 15 minutes to get to know someone over a cocktail, you can take your time.

Crispin Porter & Bogusky, a global ad agency with offices in five cities, even offers to pay for the wedding if two employees meet and fall in love at work and agree to get married in one of the offices.website says, “Work is a bad word to explain what we do.

If what you are doing seems like work, you’re either in the wrong industry or you’re not doing it right.” This is a pretty good distillation of how a lot of college-educated, passionate twentysomethings prefer to see their work lives — no matter how grueling the hours are.

You know you will have at least one thing in common, as well as an informed ear to bounce all your troubles off when you get home in the evening; 2.

You will probably have had the opportunity to study this person quite closely before starting to date them. What do you expect the company will think about a romance between you?

Lines between professional and personal lives are blurrier than ever, partly for practical reasons — even post-recession, most of us are still — and partly for cultural ones.

Then, despite the risks and "what ifs," we started dating.Now, we're about to hit our second wedding anniversary.We still work together -- helping create social games at Zynga -- and over the years have found that being coworkers not only strengthens our relationship but makes us better at our jobs.The Chat-up: Fancying someone you work with is not a criminal offence and neither is asking them out. Are you in any danger of being accused of favouritism if you start to see each other outside work? When someone operates in this manner, it is difficult to know when to say "no, thank you".It's always wise to keep in mind, though, that in the workplace you should think and plan before you act. What are your positions in the company pecking order? If you do tell this colleague you're not interested in them as a partner they may claim - unfairly - that that was never their intention in the first place, craftily extricating themselves from the area of conflict, leaving a sour taste all round.And as you might expect when two people try to maintain both a business and emotional relationship – while spending virtually every waking hour together keeping the whole thing a secret – workplace dating often ends in tears.Poll just about any office, and you’re likely to hear at least one story (if not more) of workplace dating that went awry.