NEW YORK — Forty percent of US workers have dated an office colleague, with 31% of them going on to marriage, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
Ten percent work with someone they would like to date and 18% have dated a co-worker twice or more at some time in their careers,
Those eyeing a co-worker was skewed between the sexes, with 14% of men but just 5% of women saying they would like to date a colleague.
Of those who dated a co-worker in the last year, a third said it was someone with a more senior position in the company. Of those, 42% have dated their boss, said. Nearly three-quarters said they did not have to keep their romance a secret but 7% said they had left a job due to an office romance.
The survey of 8,038 full-time adult employees was conducted online by Harris between Nov. 12 to Dec. 1, 2008.
The overall results have a sampling error of plus or minus 1.09 percentage points. —
Bishan