Most of us are tempted by chicks at work, especially if they are throwing strong IOIs in your direction. Now I know what they say, don't shit where you eat. And if you want to be purely safe do take that approach. It'll make your life much easier, especially if you work an office job you are keen on keeping. But some of us are risk takers and love a nice office affair. If you are thinking of going down that route please bear some important guidelines in mind:

1) Keep textual evidence to the minimum - Obviously if you are reading this you know better than to have long convos with a girl on the phone. This is very beta behaviour to start with. But the real problem is any flirting or indications of interest on the phone could be used against you in the future. If she gets jilted or feels like you didn't give her what she wants she'll snap and report you. The least she could do is try to shame you in front of your colleagues. Bad business. Keep texting succinct and to the point. No indication of you going on a date, sleeping together or flirting. Just text and say that "I will call you". Call and set up logistics. Most women (sane ones) won't record the call and even if they do she would have overtly accepted to sleep with you or go on a date.

2) Never flirt in public view - You don't want your colleague seeing you two sitting together in the cantine or flirting in from of them in the office. If there is a lot of women in the office chances for insane rumours, drama and gossip is very high. You want to seem like a professional and collected kinda guy not some child in a candy store. If you want to make your moves on her take her outside or to a secluded room and seduce away. Once I made the mistake of openly flirting with a girl during lunch. She was impressed and started bending her ass in front of me saying she needs someone to push her. Thing is women are not as reasonable as us men. They might forget and do stupid stuff in front of the colleagues completely forgetting about image.

3) Beware of single older women - Now in most cases cougars are a good lay OUTSIDE of work. Most cougars even if they are single won't try to trap you if you are a younger guy (societal shame and usually they are divorced and have money). If an older single woman starts showing you attention, chances are she is very desperate to get someone to commit and you are the prey. She might act extra nice and horny but her plan is to get pregnant by you. Then childsupport follows and if the guy is very beta/BP potentially marriage. Either way, problems you want to avoid so tread carefully and watch where you cum! Another thing to bear in mind is that a lot of women are lousy at their jobs. They have next to no testosterone so their drive and motivation to achieve promotions and rank up are pretty low. A lot of these women just do the bare minimum knowing that at some point they can get a good catch either in the office or some client they meet at a seminar.

4) LTR is out of the question - I've heard of people who dated at work and eventually got married. Don't be that guy! Corporates love that shit, especially female managers because they got gossip and leverage on you. Now you are working for the company and there is a spy living with you. You think your LTR won't gossip about your personal life or that the office girls won't use her to plot against you. Corporate environment is very cut-throat and anything that can be used to control you or bring you down will be used against you. So this option is only for people with no aspirations or a very beta/BP mindset.

4) Married woman are safer - Married women are very easy to lay, very eager for attention from a younger guy and almost guaranteed not to cause a scandal. She's married so the last thing she wants people to know is that she slept with you. No risk of getting caught or tricked into having children. This is pretty safe territory.

5) Thou shallt not bang the manager - You want to get fired? Sleeping with the manager is a sure-fire way of doing that. She has power over you and if she feels jilted for whatever reason you are gonna be at the receiving end of proper harassment or lose your job. Thing is even in the best case scenario you are sort of her bitch. She has leverage over you and can squash you at any moment if you refuse to do whats she wants.