This paper examines the workplace as a social environment which may promote or impede various patterns of intimacy. Industrialized society has limited social contexts for developing intimate relations and pair-bonding. Alterations in work and family patterns influenced by feminism, civil rights legislation, and changing economic conditions have integrated more people into the labor force, thus providing the occupational realm as a major link into social circles where intimate relationships may develop. Workers' structural location and differential distribution across occupational positions are analyzed in relation to opportunities for intimacy. The article concludes that the workplace can provide a stable environment for the development of intimacy and pair-bonding.