So I’m curious as to your opinions on this.

One of the businesses I own and what is more my full time one is a luxury service business so we are not medical, law enforcement related, anything like that where there would be severe conflicts of interest and therefore not required to enforce any policies we don’t want to.

So I network through social media with owners who own and operate the same types of business all over the world.

One owner recently made a post about a client asking their particular service person on a date. The employee wanted to go on the date and was interested in seeing where it went. The owner was asking what types of rules and boundaries she should put in place.

The replies were mixed but majority leaned toward my general thinking which is - only one of them works for me and what my employee does outside of work and who they choose to date and spend time with is their personal business as long as it doesn’t interfere with their job.

There were some leaning towards implementing rules and forcing the client to have a different service person. The way I look at it, the client could easily just switch to a competitor if they are forced into utilizing someone they didn’t prefer.

One woman even said she couldn’t believe the client wouldn’t ask the business owner first if he could ask her employee on a date which sounded insane to me.

I would personally never work for a business that I felt tried to dictate my personal life nor would I use the services of one that does it to their employees. If they break up, ya you might lose a client. But if you overstep you may lose both an employee AND a client.

How would you guys feel about this?