Canadian workers have been mixing business with pleasure, maybe a little too much.
A CareerBuilder.ca survey finds 34% dated someone with whom they work. Of those who have had an office romance, 35% have dated someone in a higher position than them, and 18% have dated their own boss.
As if dating the boss wasn’t perilous enough, 16% of workers who have had an office romance have had an affair with a co-worker where one person involved was married at the time.
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Among those who have had an office romance, most say their office romance began as a result of working in the same department (25%), followed by late nights on the job (17%), after-work happy hours (13%) and during lunch hours (13%).
Nearly one in 10 workers (9%) fell in love working on the same project, and the same number (9%) coupled up at a company holiday party.
Almost half (46%) of workers who have had an office romance had to keep their relationship a secret. Nearly half (43%) of those workers have accidentally run into co-workers while out on a date with their office sweetheart.
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Of those who had an office romance, 26% ended up marrying their workplace paramour.
The survey included more than 1,000 full-time, private sector workers across industries and company sizes.
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