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Romance at work has always been thorny. How do you figure out if a colleague likes you? When do you tell colleagues that you have become an item? And what happens if you break up?
But in the wake of the #MeToo movement, which has prompted questions about consent, sexual harassment and power imbalances, dating colleagues has become a lot more complicated and more financial services employers are introducing policies requiring staff to declare relationships.