A US tech company says its chief executive has quit after he was apparently caught on a big screen at a Coldplay concert embracing a female co-worker, in a clip that went viral.

The clip showed a man and a woman hugging on a jumbo screen at the arena in Foxborough, Massachusetts, before they abruptly ducked and hid from the camera.

The pair were identified in US media as Mr Byron, a married chief executive of Astronomer, and Kristin Cabot, the firm’s chief people officer.

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    22 hours ago

    Read again. You cannot be sacked for having a relationship and companies are not allowed to forbid that. Admit you were wrong and move on.

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      13 hours ago

      Your article clearly says they can have policies about it. The penalty for not following policies is often termination. So the article doesn’t say what you are claiming it does.

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            11 hours ago

            Now try to understand what you are reading. Start with

            Completely banning personal relationships at work would likely breach an employee’s right to a private life

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              Yeah, now apply basic logic to that. First it says likely, not 100%. Next, banning it only between a boss and a subordinate is not “Completly banning” it. There is nothing in that sentence that supports your opinion that they can’t ban “any” personal relationships.

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                2 hours ago

                At this point I can only quote Walther White:

                “Is this just a genetic thing with you? Is it congenital? Did your, did your mother drop you on your head when you were a baby?”

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      22 hours ago

      Hey if you can show me some legal precedence then perhaps I’ll admit to being wrong but you only provided a non official article discussing this not some legal precedence of these rules in employment contracts being contested and overturned in a court of law.