Well… Having once been infatuated with my supervisor and more than once reduced by him to tears even when my infatuation wore off, I can say this:
It’s not people falling in love with people that really reduces group output. Being in love I worked like I would never do again.
It’s people growing disappointed with people/goals, or having an actual life (my colleague quit her PhD when her husband lost his job, + they had a kid), or—God forbid! - competing for money. Now that’s what I would call trouble.
Just noting here that I was wrong. I’m working 12 hr a day now (it’s The Season), hate my current boss for doing less than he could and generally creating work out of thin air, and am still very much content not to be a housewife.
Very good point! It’s a ubiquitous stereotype, but it’s not a priori clear to me that workplace romance leads to a net decrease in productivity, and I haven’t seen real evidence for it. Google Scholar yielded nothing, it either ignores the search word “productivity” or just yields papers that report the cliché.
Well… Having once been infatuated with my supervisor and more than once reduced by him to tears even when my infatuation wore off, I can say this:
It’s not people falling in love with people that really reduces group output. Being in love I worked like I would never do again.
It’s people growing disappointed with people/goals, or having an actual life (my colleague quit her PhD when her husband lost his job, + they had a kid), or—God forbid! - competing for money. Now that’s what I would call trouble.
Just noting here that I was wrong. I’m working 12 hr a day now (it’s The Season), hate my current boss for doing less than he could and generally creating work out of thin air, and am still very much content not to be a housewife.
Very good point! It’s a ubiquitous stereotype, but it’s not a priori clear to me that workplace romance leads to a net decrease in productivity, and I haven’t seen real evidence for it. Google Scholar yielded nothing, it either ignores the search word “productivity” or just yields papers that report the cliché.