An unscientific survey suggests that as many as 87 percent of working people have felt attracted to a coworker.
The survey of 332 single male and female office workers by matchmaking business DUO had 87.3 percent of respondents admitting they at some stage felt drawn to coworker of the opposite sex. Of these, over 40 percent said they had actually experienced an office relationship. The figures were much higher than a 2003 poll of 639 people, where 74 percent said they felt something for a coworker and 24.4 percent said they got romantically involved, but with samples so small the margin of error is of course off the scale.
Asked why they got that certain feeling about a colleague, 43.1 percent said because they saw them often, and 27.4 percent because they showed them consideration. Some 11.1 percent were so professionally minded that they got weak in the knees because the object of their affection was good at his or her job, 9 percent said because the colleague was sociable, and 6.9 percent because they liked their looks. More than 83 percent said they would keep any office romance secret; 52.1 percent would tell only those close to them, and 31.6 percent said they would meet in complete secrecy.
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Robbie Williams has admitted that he has been enjoying a secret relationship for five months.
"I've had a relationship in LA for five months that nobody knows about," the singer told hit40uk host Katy Hill.
"I've been on about 50-odd dates that nobody knows about because there isn't the network of grasses they have in the UK. They don't know who I am in LA. Or rather, they're not bothered!"
Source: digitalspy.co.uk
IT seems office types spend as much time wooing colleagues as working.
Research reveals about 70 per cent of workers have had an office romance.
A third of these were involved with a colleague who is married or in a long-term relationship.
And the losers of such love matches are nearly always the ladies.
Researcher Geoff Carter, a Griffith University management lecturer, said women who have flings with married colleagues "usually get burned".
Dr Carter, who surveyed 400 managers in NSW and Queensland, discovered those aged 18-30 were most likely to have successful, appropriate romances with workmates.
Source: news.com.au
The Danville-Boyle County Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) is celebrating National Tourism Week, set for May 8-15.
The public can stop by the CVB office for complimentary:
* Kentucky roadmaps
* National Geographic's Geotourism MapGuide of Appalachia
* The Southeastern Kentucky Tourism Development Association's Explore: An American Original Guidebook
* The Bluegrass Passport, provided by the Bluegrass Region, which offers free admission into nearly 50 central Kentucky attractions May 14-22.
The CVB office also will aid with travel ideas to plan your next Kentucky vacation. The office is open 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday in the McClure-Barbee
An Oceanside family is asking for help in finding a 28-year-old woman who moved to Texas to live with a man she met over the Internet.
Cynthia Razon started on online relationship with 18-year-old Robert Guerrero in December 2004, according to her family. In August, Razon moved in with him in his Sweetwater, Texas home.
Razon called her mother two weeks ago and said the relationship had soured and that she was going to cash more than $1,000 in checks and move back to Oceanside.
That was the last time Razon's family had heard from her.
Her family said
As we drift into a gray autumn - our San Diego sunshine fading, our mayoral race stripped of suspense - here's one bit of cold comfort:
At least Toronto is having fun.
You may not have heard about the juicy bone fate has thrown to our northern brethren. Say what you will about Buffalo and Toronto making up one big metropolitan corridor, there's still a news blackout between us.
So I'll fill you in: A romance was discovered between two senior Toronto bureaucrats - Pam Coburn, a 45-year-old divorced mother of two, and Joseph Carnevale, a 33-year-old married guy with