WTF... I worked for an insurance company in the USA where they had a policy of hiring spouses, theory is that having both partners working at the same company results in less staff turnover and better retention of business knowledge. Makes sense to me. It is where I met my wife and we had a great working relationship, she was my database administrator on half a dozen projects where I was senior developer. And after almost thirty years in IT, I can honestly say she in the top five of the best DBAs I'd ever worked with.
So now, back in Geelong, Australia, she has applied TWICE at the company I work for now, both times never made an interview, not even an acknowledgement of application. So now, she saw a job at our direct competitor down the street. They are falling over themselves to get her in to interview.
I hope she gets the job so my company can worry about me bailing and taking almost five years of business knowledge to the competitor.