Workplace romance still thrived during the lockdown, but it was harder to see.
Bernard Looney, chief executive officer of BP Plc, during the Business 20 Summit in New Delhi, India, on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. The B-20 is a business summit associated with the Group of Twenty leaders' meeting, scheduled to take place in New Delhi in September. , Bloomberg
BP said that its board reviewed allegations relating to Looney’s past personal relationships with colleagues in 2022, finding no breaches of the company’s code of conduct. Further allegations of a similar nature were received recently, after which Looney informed the company that he hadn’t been fully transparent with the previous investigation, the company said.
“People were still interacting, they were just doing it virtually,” she said. While the modality may have shifted — texting during a Zoom call, perhaps, instead of striking up conversation by the water cooler — all the psychological reasons people fall in love at work haven't changed, Baker said. “There’s not a ton of transparency for finding out the real reason a CEO leaves,” said Kabrina Chang, associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion at Boston University’s Questrom school of business. “Perhaps one of the reasons this is making so many headlines is because we now know why a CEO of a multinational, multi-billion-dollar company is being asked to leave. And I do think people are always going to look for the salacious element.
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