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* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': In "War Stories", it's revealed Mal was very much against Zoe marrying Wash, for the possibility of after-breakup awkwardness. Frankly, on-the-job romance is the only kind of romance available aboard ''Serenity''.

** Hodges was kind of dancing around Morgan too, but he later gets engaged to an Italian girl.

%%** Michael and Holly. The ended up together.

** Ryan and Kelly as well. They're in th on-again and off-again relationship. Their desk were even side by side for a while.

%%** Michael and Jan

%%** Dwight and Angela

%%** Ryan and Kelly

* Country singer Doug Stone's song "In A Different Light" is about an office worker who has a crush on the schoolmarm-esque co-worker who sits "three desks down", and how he sees beyond the [[BeautifulAllAlong uptight clothes, hair]] and [[TheGlassesComeOff glasses]]. After they finally go out on a date and sleep together, the office worker reflects the next day on how he sees her "in a different light, with [her] hair falling down and love in [her] eyes" -- and how he's just as glad no one else at the office sees that side of her.

** Emma Woodhouse is a lifestyle coach and head of the Emma Approved company, while Knightley is her business partner and friend who does all the "boring stuff". As in the novel, they get a ChildhoodFriendshipRomance RelationshipUpgrade near the end, and continue to work together (though Emma does express concern that this will impact their business).

* ''Theatre/HowToSucceedInBusinessWithoutReallyTrying'', as it is set in an office, involves a few, mainly between up and comer J. Pierrepont Finch and Rosemary Pilkington, [[ValuesDissonance who wishes to be wed in order to quit working]].
* ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'' briefly has one between Seymour and Audrey, who work together in a flower shop on Skid Row. Seymour's desire to be good enough for Audrey is a main part of what drives him to feed the man-eating Audrey II. When they finally get together, their boss doesn't react well only because [[spoiler: he connects the dots that Seymour was likely involved in Audrey's boyfriend's disappearance]]. [[spoiler: Tragically, the Audrey II kills first Audrey and then Seymour at the end of the play. The film adaptation, however, shows them defeating Audrey II and moving to the suburbs.]]

* ''Theatre/HowToSucceedInBusinessWithoutReallyTrying'' involves a few, mainly between up and comer J. Pierrepont Finch and Rosemary Pilkington, [[ValuesDissonance who wishes to be wed in order to quit working]].

* ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'' briefly has one between Seymour and Audrey, who work together in a flower shop on Skid Row. Seymour's desire to be good enough for Audrey is a main part of what drives him to feed the man-eating Audrey II, and they finally get together in Act II with the iconic "Suddenly Seymour" duet. [[spoiler: Tragically, the Audrey II kills first Audrey and then Seymour at the end of the play. The film adaptation, however, shows them defeating Audrey II and moving to the suburbs.]]

** Emma Woodhouse is a lifestyle coach and head of the Emma Approved company, while Knightley is her business partner and friend who does all the "boring stuff". As in the novel, they get a ChildhoodFriendshipRomance RelationshipUpgrade near the end while continuing to work together (though Emma does express concern that this will impact their business).
** Harriet Smith becomes Emma's assistant, who develops feelings for Bobby Martin, the company's IT guy.

** Emma Woodhouse is a lifestyle coach and head of the Emma Approved company, while Knightley is her business partner and friend who does all the "boring stuff". As in the novel, they get a RelationshipUpgrade near the end while continuing to work together (though Emma does express concern that this will impact their business).

** Emma Woodhouse is a lifestyle coach and head of the Emma Approved company, while Knightley is her business partner and friend who does all the "boring stuff". As in the novel, they get a RelationshipUpgrade near the end while continuing to work together.

** Emma Woodhouse is a lifestyle coach and head of the Emma Approved company, while Knightley is her business partner who does all the "boring stuff".
** Harriet Smith is Emma's assistant, who develops feelings for Bobby Martin, the company's IT guy.

* ''Film/DeskSet'' centers around a love triangle between reference librarian Bunny Watson, her supervisor Mike Cutler, who she has been with for seven years with no sign of a wedding ring, and Richard Sumner, an efficiency expert who is brought into the company to install a supercomputer that threatens to put Bunny out of a job. Nobody bats an eye at Mike being in a relationship with his inferior, but his putting work first over Bunny eventually leads to their breakup.

* ''Film/DeskSet'' centers around two of these. Bunny has been in a relationship with her supervisor, Mike Cutler, for seven years, but it isn't going as fast as she'd like due to Mike always putting work first. When Richard Sumner comes in to the office as an efficiency expert, Richard, impressed with Bunny's intellect, starts getting closer to her, but she is suspicious of him due to his EMERAC supercomputer, which could put her and her colleagues out of a job. [[spoiler: This culminates in a proposal from Mike, which Bunny turns down due to him having to relocate to the West Coast, and ends in her getting together with Richard instead, as he promises he will put her first over his computer.]]

* ''WebVideo/EmmaApproved'': As a modern adaptation of Jane Austen's ''Literature/{{Emma}}' set in an office, a number of the novel's relationships become this:

* ''Theatre/Annie'' teases one between Oliver Warbucks and his secretary Grace Farrell, who become surrogate parental figures to Annie.

** While Sheldon and Amy were already together, when Amy starts working at Caltech in "The Workplace Proximity", they end up having to deal with workplace romance issues on and off. While they work in different departments, Sheldon's occasional lack of boundaries and lack of respect for Amy's work sometimes caused conflict. This turned more positive by Season 12, when they worked together on their super asymmetry research, [[spoiler: eventually winning the Nobel Prize.]]
** This ended up causing an issue between Leonard and Penny at the start of Season 9. [[spoiler: After a ShotgunWedding in Las Vegas, Leonard reveals he kissed a coworker, Mandy Chow, during the North Sea expedition he took a few years back. While Penny and Leonard weren't engaged at time, she later finds she can't stop thinking about it. He makes it worse when he lets slip that Mandy works at Caltech, making Penny uncomfortable. Subverted, since it becomes clear that Leonard never had real feelings for Mandy, and Mandy doesn't even think about Leonard (as SheGetsAround) - Leonard only really brought up the incident to sabotage himself.]]

* ''Film/DeskSet'' centers around two of these. Bunny has been in a relationship with her supervisor, Mike Cutler, for seven years, but it isn't going as fast as she'd like due to Mike always putting work first. When Richard Sumner comes in to the office as an efficiency expert, Richard, impressed with Bunny's intellect, starts getting closer to her, but she is suspicious of him due to his connection to the EMERAC supercomputer, which could put her and her colleagues out of a job. [[spoiler: This culminates in a proposal from Mike, which Bunny turns down due to him having to relocate to the West Coast, and ends in her getting together with Richard instead.]]

** Detective Charles Boyle has a ''huge'' crush on detective Rosa Diaz with "badass bitch" attitude. He keeps asking her out nervously. She doesn't reciprocate, but they become close friends instead.

** In Seasons 3-5, Rosa had this with Adrian Pimento, a detective who recently returned to the precinct after years undercover working for a violent New York mob boss. They managed to make ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyloGJKwQDs signing paperwork]]'' look steamy. [[spoiler: After a forced separation and an attempted and then postponed wedding, Rosa eventually breaks up with him.]]

* Mizuki from Creator/CoolKyouShinsha's series ''Paranoia Cage'' is a hentai author who is in love with her editor. This leads to her getting accused by internet trolls of having gotten her job via a CastingCouch, and when they finally start dating [[RealityEnsues their publisher assigns them to work with different people to avoid a conflict of interest]].

* ''Manga/TheWeathermanIsMyLover'' features an office romance between a [[TheStoic stoic]] newscaster and his eccentric weatherman on an early bird tv program.

** Danny and Lindsay. [[HollywoodLaw In real life, someone would probably have to change departments to avoid conflict of interest]], but they still work together, though they rarely work on the same case. Danny was on the team from the start and Lindsay joined after Aiden was fired. There was a lot of WillTheyOrWontThey UnresolvedSexualTension beteween them, and finally, [[TheyDo they got married]].

** Hodgins and Angela. They both work in the Jeffersonian scientifc institute, so their relationship might be less (or more) complicated than the FBI/consultant cases.

** In last seasons, Ross has a crush on his gorgeous colleague Charlie who is also a palaeontologist and works at the same department. She first dated his friend Joey which also complicated things.

** In "Aubrey", a female Detective has an affair with her Lieutenant who is married. She gets pregnant with him, but these are only minor problems. She starts channelling her grandfather who is a SerialKiller. She ended up suicidal and tried to abort her son. Lieutenant Tillman has petitioned to adopt the child (it's unknown whether his wife knew about the affair or if they even stayed together).

** At the start of the series Matt and Daisy are FriendsWithBenefits, despite Daisy dating another man. She and her fiance break up after he learns about Matt, and they start dating full-time. They try to keep it on the down-low but Elizabeth, being former CIA, figures it out anyway and doesn't care.

** Don sleeps with his secretary Allison whe he's wasted and she helped him to get home. She feels exploited by him because he pretended like nothing happened.

* The "Full Benefits" series on Website/CollegeHumor is a series on staffwriters Sarah Schneider and David Young working through an office romance.

** Cam and Arastoo, she's the supervisor and he's one of the interns. It’s technically DatingTheBoss, but Brennan is Arastoo’s direct supervisor. Somehow, it’s not complicated at all by regulations onscreen.