Office Mate: Your Employee Handbook for Romance on the Job [Paperback]

Stephanie Losee (Author), Helaine Olen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 6, 2007

The greatest pool of potential mates is not online, not in a bar, and not on a blind date. It's in an office. Why? Because you practically live there!Office and work friendships develop gradually over months and years, allowing people to get to know one another instead of judging on first impressions.This book tells you how to navigate this dicey territory gracefully with specific dos and don'ts of office romance; useful even if there are no eligible candidates in your current workplace.

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About the Author

Stephanie Losee is the co-author of You've Only Got Three Seconds. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Post. She lives in San Francisco. Helaine Olen was the lead writer for the Los Angeles Times's popular "Money Makeover" feature and lives in New York.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media (November 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1598693301
• ISBN-13: 978-1598693300
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,021,379 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stephanie Losee is co-author of the book "Office Mate: The Employee Handbook for Finding--and Managing--Romance on the Job." In the book she and Helaine Olen explain why work just might be the perfect place to find true love. The New York Times called Office Mate "a kind of 'The Rules' for the office"and Reuters selected it as their Business Book of the Week; it has appeared in publications ranging from Time and People to Salon.com and Cosmopolitan; Stephanie and Helaine were named Love & Sex Coaches on AOL and have appeared on CNN, Fox Business News, and NPR, as well as other TV programs and radio shows across the country and in Britain, Europe, and Russia. Office Mate was translated into Russian in 2008. Stephanie Losee is also co-author of "You've Only Got Three Seconds: How to Make the Right Impression in Your Business and Social Life," written with Camille Lavington and published by Doubleday in hardcover in 1997 and in paperback in 1998. The book was a selection of the Money Book Club and the Forbes Book Club and has been translated into Danish and Korean. Her personal essays have appeared in several publications and in anthologies that include "The Maternal is Political," "Horse Crazy" and "Cup of Comfort for Writers." She was featured in Alison Rogers' "Diary of a Real Estate Rookie" and appears in "Time to Write: Professional Writers Reveal How to Fit Writing Into Your Life" by Kelly Stone, as well as Harper Perennial's "Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak." Her stories have been published in O, The Oprah Magazine, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, San Francisco Magazine, Child, the Mountain Gazette, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, AlterNet and Salon.com, among others. Her essay "Ella's Restaurant" was a finalist in creative nonfiction for the 2004 New Letters Award. She is a frequent commentator on KQED, Northern California Public Radio. Away from her desk she is a mountaineer, a Dartmouth alum, a former New Yorker, a current San Franciscan, and the mother of three daughters ages 4 to 14.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Dating Guide for The Rest of Us, November 16, 2007

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Here's what I love about this book 1. It's a great read. Yes, it has a storyline, you can follow it, it has useful sidebars! 2. It's smart. The ideas are practical and accessible 3. They use (gasp!) studies and books to make their points! This part impresses me as I've read a few too many books based on the author's opinion or maybe a couple friends of the author. 3. They made me laugh and it felt like a conversation with a witty smart friend. 5. It's not just for 20 somethings. As someone who sure isn't fresh out of college, they talked to me and make their ideas possible and doable. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and will now use it as a reference because who knows maybe there's a work buddy and potential romatic partner out there for me!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The complete book on office romance is also perfectly written, October 21, 2007

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This review is from: Office Mate: Your Employee Handbook for Romance on the Job (Paperback)

I love this book! It's so well written: funny, thorough, smart. These two have done their research and write from experience. It's about time a book like this has been written--hard to believe it's the first one out there. Thanks to the authors for showing that office romance can be done, and done well.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pleasant guide to finding the right person in the office, December 19, 2008

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This review is from: Office Mate: Your Employee Handbook for Romance on the Job (Paperback)

Common ground is a necessary starting point for any relationship. So, why go to a bar to meet a potential mate? Instead, search for love in a more familiar place: your office. An office works like a community where people know each other well. Individuals also act and look most like themselves in the office. Stephanie Losee and Helaine Olen, who met their spouses at work, express their enthusiasm for finding love at the office. They guide hard-working singles through the low-lit halls of the office to find love among the cubicles and conference rooms. getAbstract recommends their warm and practical approach, and praises the care they've taken with sexual harassment issues.