[josephgrossberg]

What you're essentially proposing is, "All employees have to declare whether or not they are sexually available to every other employee."

It's demeaning, unprofessional, and a legal nightmare that this would be part of the terms of employment!

It also gets consent totally wrong. The onus shouldn't be on employees to explicitly swipe, "No: I do not want to be subjected to sexual and romantic advances at work." That has to be the default.

Plus, are managers involved? If your boss swipes "yes" and you swipe "no", how are you to know that won't bias their evaluation and treatment of you?

And when someone swipes "yes", what are they swiping "yes" to? Being flirted with? Being asked out on a date? Being propositioned for sex? Are you proposing that "Hey, she swiped yes" stands up as a refutation of any sexual harassment claims?

Etc. etc.

Think it through, man -- this would astronomically increase workplace drama and legal woes, not reduce them.

[malandrew]

Look, I was just proposing a thought experiment to foster the beginning of a discussion. The raw idea I proposed was just that, raw, with the goal that others may see the merit in it and explore where a derivative solution may better maximize overall benefits for society.

It's hard for Americans to consider the merits of workplace romance because it's been hammered into them for 20-30 years now that it's always wrong all the time. Having worked professionally on 3 continents, the American approach would be picked apart by many foreigners as easily as you picked apart my proposal.

Truth be told, in the US we're at a local maxima once you consider that alternative solutions may do a better job of increasing lifetime happiness (i.e. there is a non-trivial chance that your ideal partner(s) is/are someone you work with). It's hard to recognize the situation here as a local maxima if you've never had the opportunity to work in a culture where you could date people with whom you work.

[josephgrossberg]

And how, exactly, do you conclude that I'm American? Or that I've not worked professionally on three continents?

Cool assumptions, bro.

And why propose a thought experiment if you're just going to dismiss criticism as a reflection of the critic's nationality, instead of evaluating them on their own merits?

You didn't address a single counterpoint I made; it sounds like you're not interested in a "thought experiment" so much as proposing your idea and then not hearing any criticism.