Many Are Working at Love on the Job
More than 30,000 people responded to an online survey about romance in the workplace that was written and analyzed by Janet Lever, a Cal State L.A. sociologist.
The survey was administered on Elle.com and MSNBC.com.
Here are some of the results:
* 62% had at least one office affair.
* 42% were married or in a relationship at the time of their affair.
* 41% admitted to having sex at work.
* 54% of married and 62% of single people flirt at work.
* 41% agreed that women who advance are still subject to gossip that they slept their way to the top.
* 34% of women and 20% of men say they play up their sexuality at work.
* 20% had sex with a co-worker during work hours.
* 7% got caught in the act but most suffered nothing more than embarrassment.
* Roughly 50% said the relationship lasted a year or longer.
* 16% reported that the relationship lasted five or more years.
* 13% of women felt passed over for a promotion because a supervisor found them sexually threatening.
* 25% of women felt their career benefited because a supervisor found them attractive.
* 9% of women and 15% of men said they refrained from acting friendly for fear it would be misconstrued as a sexual advance.
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