Workplace Romance Trends We Cannot Stop Reading

The office romance has had a serious rebrand. Workplace romance trends are no longer just about a terrifyingly handsome CEO, a glass-walled corner office and an HR policy nobody appears to have read. Readers still enjoy a power suit and a well-timed lift encounter, obviously. But the fantasy has become sharper: more equal footing, more emotional intelligence, more believable work, and far less patience for a man who thinks being rude is a personality.

For romance readers, the workplace remains irresistible because it supplies what every great love story needs: proximity, friction and an extremely inconvenient reason to keep seeing each other. The trick is making that inconvenience feel delicious rather than deeply reportable.