>>510811250Everyone keeps missing the point. So I will spell it out in detail.
The main problem is NOT that these are two married people having an affair. That is only a problem for their soon-to-be ex-spouses, and the attorney's that will be hired during the divorce.
The real problem here is the professional misconduct. A CEO is not allowed to have an affair with a co-worker, especially an HR director. Meanwhile, an HR director is never... NEVER.... allowed to have relations with anyone who works for the same company. This is business best-practices worldwide; known by every CEO and HR director in the world, INCLUDING these two. In fact, the fact that the HR director reacted so much quicker, and hid her face so much quicker than the CEO is a result of her knowing, as an HR director, how completely she screwed up by letting the affair happen.
Given this situation, the company has now been opened to lawsuits by anyone who ever filed a complaint against the CEO; or anyone who had even been fired by the company, or anyone who had ever failed to get a promotion from this HR director.
So it is not the affair, but the clear, unambiguous professional misconduct what will get the fired.