調查:美辦公室戀情遍地開花

Forty percent of US workers have dated an office colleague, with 31 percent 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 percent have dated a co-worker twice or more at some time in their careers, the office romance survey for online job website showed.

Those eyeing a co-worker was skewed between the sexes, with 14 percent of men but just 5 percent 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 percent have dated their boss.

Nearly three-quarters said they did not have to keep their romance a secret but 7 percent 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 Interactive on behalf of between November 12 and December 1, 2008.

The overall results have a sampling error of plus or minus 1.09 percentage points, it said. is owned by Gannett Co, Tribune Co, The McClatchy Co and Microsoft Corp.

本週二公佈的一項調查顯示，美國40%的職場人士都曾與自己的同事約會過，其中31%的人最終走向了婚姻殿堂。

這項爲招聘網站開展的辦公室戀情調查顯示，10%的人表示自己想與某個同事約會，18%的人稱自己在職業生涯中曾與同事約會過兩次或兩次以上。

同時，在這個問題上還存在性別差異，14%的男性表示願意與同事約會，而僅有5%的女性願意這麼做。

在去年與同事約會過的受訪者中，三分之一的人稱自己的約會對象在公司中的職位比自己高，這其中有42%的人與自己的上司約會。

近四分之三的人稱自己的辦公室戀情不用保密，而7%的人則因此而離職。

這項在線調查由網站委託“哈里斯互動”調查機構開展，共有8038名全職成年僱員參加，調查時間從去年的11月12日持續至12月1日。

調查結果的誤差在正負1.09個百分點之間。網站隸屬於（美國報業巨頭）Gannett Co、Tribune Co、The McClatchy Co和微軟集團。