Risk-Aversion Is Killing Romance for Gen Z
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We spend a third of our lives at work [1]. Due to the excesses of post-war white-collar in-office culture, we--rightfully--are revisiting the conventions of romance at the office. Unfortunately, in the midst of this revisitation and its correspondent ambiguity, broaching dating at work has become incredibly risky, particularly for men, the classically risk-taking sex when it comes to relationships.
I wonder how much of the retreat of romance is due to taking this space where we spend nearly half of our waking hours and cordoning it off from a basic social function. (And in case it isn't abundantly clear, I am not advocating a return to the 50s.)
[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/175286/hour-workweek-actually-l...
But this isn't a particularly new thing, and definitely not new to Gen-Z - many of whom are too young to work white-collar jobs anyway.