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
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The public can stop by the CVB office for complimentary:
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The warning has been issued by the UK Atomic Energy Authority to its workers at Windscale in West Cumbria, and sites at Dounreay, Caithness, Harwell and Culham.
The UKAEA’s holiday sex advice appears in the latest company bulletin for employees.
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