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Re:A note from Keith by brown9-2 on Friday January 25, 2013 @08:53PM (#5118872)
A company would want to know of a relationship outside of work in case there are conflicts at work between the two employees in the future.

And because a reporting relationship between sexual partners is a bad idea.

"I think we need to let X go" could take on a whole new context if the speaker was just dumped by X.

Re:A note from Keith by spuz on Saturday January 26, 2013 @04:42AM (#5119887)
OK, but I still don't see what HR could do in those cases with prior knowledge that they could not do with knowledge at the time an issue is raised.

For example, if I have just been fired by the manager who I just dumped, I go to HR and have them resolve the situation then and explain the conflict of interest given that we were in a relationship. The manager is given a talking to, I keep my job and the situation is resolved. Please explain how this situation plays out differently under your rules.

Re:A note from Keith by brown9-2 on Saturday January 26, 2013 @07:23AM (#5120187)
You could reassign employees so that there is no reporting relationship which is a universally bad idea.