Survey: British enjoy office romance
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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Whether it's a frisson by the filing cabinet or a gaze over bar graphs, romance blossoms in the workplace for nearly two thirds of British employees, according to a survey.
Yet office love reduces productivity, with half of coupled-up colleagues admitting their work suffers as a result, according to the "Work-Love Balance" survey Monday.
Rather than focusing on the photocopying, three in ten people said they had "enjoyed physical intimacy" in their workplace, citing the lift and stairwell as the most expedient locations.
Despite the naughty nurse stereotype, health care and medical workers are the least likely to indulge in work romances, while the leisure and tourism industry is a libidinous hotbed which ensnares eight out of ten employees, the survey found.
Employment law and human resources consultants Human and Legal Resources, who carried out the survey among 1072 workers last month, said long working fostered romance.
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