{"id":164,"date":"2014-07-31T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caribbeanjobs.com\/careeradvice\/love-is-in-the-air-and-in-your-workplace"},"modified":"2014-11-17T14:11:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T14:11:30","slug":"love-is-in-the-air-and-in-your-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caribbeanjobs.com\/careeradvice\/love-is-in-the-air-and-in-your-workplace","title":{"rendered":"Love is in the Air AND in your Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Valentine&#8217;s Day just around the corner, love is in the air &#8211; and at your place of work.<\/p>\n<p>According to a romance-in-the-workplace-survey released by <em>Randstad USA<\/em>, a workforce solutions company, 31 percent of U.S. adults believe it is appropriate to date a co-worker, 27 percent have kissed a co-worker, and two percent said they have sent themselves flowers or a gift on Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>According to Genia Spencer of <em>Randstad USA<\/em>, &#8220;Right now, based on our survey around romance in the workplace, adult Americans are telling us that they do mix business with pleasure, and that that&#8217;s not necessarily a bad thing. With Americans spending more and more time at their jobs, the workplace is increasingly becoming a source of social activity and a venue for romantic interaction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interesting findings include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Love: 30 percent of working adults said they have <strong>dated a co-worker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>24 percent said they feel comfortable <strong>discussing their romantic relationships<\/strong> with their work colleagues.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>15 percent said they use <strong>work as a distraction<\/strong> from their personal lives.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Valentine&#8217;s Day: Three percent of adults have sent a secret <strong>Valentine<\/strong> to a co- worker.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Five percent feel pressured to send Valentine&#8217;s Day flowers or candy to their significant other <strong>at their work<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>10 percent bring Valentine&#8217;s gifts\/cards to share <strong>with co-workers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>20 percent <strong>wear red<\/strong> or other Valentine&#8217;s Day colors and symbols to work on February 14.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Communication:<\/strong>: The majority communicate (e.g., by phone, email, instant messaging, text messaging) with a significant other each day.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>35 percent said they spend up to <strong>15 minutes a day<\/strong> communicating with a significant other.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>One percent said they spend more than <strong>four hours<\/strong> each working day communicating with a significant other.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Perception: 35 percent of married adults said <strong>married workers<\/strong> are more reliable than their single, divorced, separated or widowed colleagues.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>19 percent of employed divorced\/separated\/widowed adults say that <strong>married workers<\/strong> are more reliable.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Nine percent of employed single adults said <strong>married workers<\/strong> are more reliable.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>26 percent of married adults said <strong>single workers <\/strong>spend more time socialising on the job while only 16 percent of single workers agreed.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>25 percent of <strong>single workers<\/strong> said single people are more fun to work with while only nine percent of married adults agreed.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This article may contain 3rd party information which CaribbeanJobs.com has approval to use<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Valentine&#8217;s Day just around the corner, love is in the air &#8211; and at your place&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-perks-benefits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanjobs.com\/careeradvice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanjobs.com\/careeradvice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanjobs.com\/careeradvice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanjobs.com\/careeradvice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanjobs.com\/careeradvice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanjobs.com\/careeradvice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanjobs.com\/careeradvice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanjobs.com\/careeradvice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanjobs.com\/careeradvice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanjobs.com\/careeradvice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanjobs.com\/careeradvice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}