68% of Executives Say Theyve Harbored Secret Crushes on Co-Workers According to TheLadders.com Survey. 17% Confess to Having Inter-Office Affairs.
New York, NY (PRWEB) February 9, 2005 -- It looks like someone may have spiked the company water cooler with a little love potion this Valentines Day. According to a survey conducted by online executive job search service TheLadders.com, over two-thirds of executives said theyve harbored secret crushes on a co-worker.
The survey of 734 executives in the $100k+ job market found that a combination of long hours, close quarters and the slow hum of the photocopy machine may be the perfect recipe for romance. When asked: Have you ever harbored a secret crush on a co-worker; a full 68 percent of the executives surveyed said, yes." Only 32 percent said, no."
As for those workers whove taken the crush one step further, 42 percent of those responding to a related survey of 1,044 executives said that they have been involved in a full-fledged office romance.
How many of these PowerPoint and Excel spreadsheet-fueled romances involved infidelity? When asked in a third survey of 1,349 executives: Have you ever had an extramarital affair with a co-worker; 17 percent of respondents said, yes." Thinking better of the repercussions of this type of romance, the 83 percent majority said they had not been adulterous with a co-worker.
At its best, a healthy work environment is an intense, inspiring, challenging and gratifying place," explained TheLadders.com founder and president, Marc Cenedella. While this combination can sometimes create a hothouse for emotional ties to the people we spend so much time with, office romances are not generally good for your career track. Executives who are serious about their careers need to think about business first; courting Alice in accounting isnt the best way to maintain that killer instinct."
TheLadders.coms look at Office Valentines is based on a series of three independent surveys of registered $100k+ executives conducted on TheLadders.com Web site between January 11, 2005 and February 3, 2005. The margin of error for each survey is as follows:
•Have you ever harbored a secret crush on a co-worker: ±3.7 percent.
•Have you ever been involved in an office romance: ±3.0 percent.
•Have you ever had an extramarital affair with a co-worker: ±2.7 percent.
Now reaching over 245,000 readers and featuring over 4,000 new $100k+ job listings each week, TheLadders.com is the largest online job search service catering exclusively to the $100k+ market. Marc Cenedella founded TheLadders.com in July 2003 after a tenure as Senior Vice President, Finance & Operations, at HotJobs.com, ultimately shepherding that companys sale to Yahoo, Inc. (NASD: YHOO) in 2002. In May 2004 he was named Entrepreneur of the Year by award-winning marketing newsletter, MarketingSherpa, which cited TheLadders.coms unique business model as a key to its sustained growth.
About TheLadders.com, Inc.
Based in New York, TheLadders.com, Inc. is a privately held company offering online job search services to the $100k+ employment market. The company operates specialized job search Web sites for the sales (www.salesladder.com), marketing (www.mktgladder.com), finance (www.financeladder.com) and HR, legal and operations (www.upladder.com) industries, produces a series of industry-specific, weekly e-newsletters, and maintains the worlds first customer service blog (http://askmarc.salesladder.com/). The company also produces an electronic newsletter providing job market insights and data to executive recruiters (www.recruitladder.com). Backers of TheLadders.com include Matrix Partners and a group of private investors including the following individuals: Kevin Ryan, CEO, DoubleClick (NASD: DCLK) and Board Director, HotJobs.com; Tom Matlack, Megunticook Management; and Robert Chefitz, NJTC Venture Fund. More information on the company can be found online at www.theladders.com.
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