LONDON, June 24 /PRNewswire/ --

- UK Workers are More Likely Than Other European Workers Surveyed to
Marry Co-Workers They Date-

If you are interested in dating co-workers, then a new survey from
CareerBuilder.co.uk reveals that Greece, the Netherlands and Spain may be the
best places for you to work. Out of the countries surveyed, Greek workers (66
per cent) are the most likely to have engaged in an office romance, followed
by workers in the Netherlands (51 per cent), Spain (46 per cent), the UK (40
per cent), Sweden (40 per cent) and the U.S. (40 per cent). Workers in
Germany (28 per cent) are the least likely to have dated a co-worker.

Dating Higher Ups

The data suggests that in Spain, the Netherlands and Greece, men are more
likely to have dated a co-worker in a higher position than women workers in
those countries. In the UK, Germany, Sweden and the U.S., women are more
likely to have dated someone in a higher position than men in those
countries.

Per cent of workers who have dated co-workers in higher positions
(overall and by gender)

-- UK: 22 per cent (Men: 14 per cent, Women: 30 per cent)
    -- Spain: 58 per cent (Men: 64 per cent, Women: 49 per cent)
    -- Sweden: 25 per cent (Men: 19 per cent, Women: 32 per cent)
    -- Netherlands: 41 per cent (Men: 41 per cent, Women: 38 per cent)
    -- Germany: 24 per cent (Men: 18 per cent, Women: 30 per cent)
    -- Greece: 38 per cent (Men: 40 per cent, Women: 34 per cent)
    -- United States: 27 per cent (Men: 20 per cent, Women: 37 per cent)



Where is office romance most accepted?

Workers in the Netherlands (93 per cent) are the least likely to have to
keep their work relationships secret, followed by workers in Spain (77 per
cent), Germany (70 per cent), the UK (69 per cent), U.S. (66 per cent),
Greece (62 per cent) and Sweden (57 per cent).

Getting Married

Out of all the workers surveyed, the results suggest that U.S. workers
(29 per cent) were most likely to marry co-workers they dated, followed by
workers in the UK (21 per cent), Germany (19 per cent), Spain (17 per cent)
and Sweden (16 per cent). Workers from Greece (5 per cent) and the
Netherlands (4 per cent) were the least likely to marry a co-worker they
dated.

Where the Love Begins

Happy hour is the most popular place to start an office romance in the
UK, Spain and Greece. In Sweden and Germany, romance most commonly starts at
the company holiday party or company picnic and in the U.S. and the
Netherlands, running into someone outside of work is the most popular way to
begin office relationships.

Office romances began at:

-- Happy Hour: UK (17 per cent), Spain (17 per cent), Greece (11 per
       cent), U.S. (11 per cent), Sweden (10 per cent), Netherlands (6 per
       cent), Germany (2 per cent)
    -- Outside of Work: Sweden (13 per cent), Germany (13 per cent), U.S. (13
       per cent), Spain (12 per cent), UK (9 per cent), Netherlands (8 per
       cent), Greece (6 per cent)
    -- Company holiday party or company picnic: Germany (16 per cent), Sweden
       (16 per cent), UK (7 per cent), Spain (5 per cent), Greece (4 per
       cent), U.S. (3 per cent) Netherlands (2 per cent)
    -- At lunch: U.S. (11 per cent), Germany (7 per cent), UK (6 per cent),
       Spain (5 per cent), Sweden (4 per cent), Netherlands (4 per cent),
       Greece (3 per cent)
    -- Company off-site meeting: Greece (6 per cent), UK (5 per cent), Spain
       (4 per cent), Germany (3 per cent), Netherlands (2 per cent), U.S. (2
       per cent), Sweden (less than 1 per cent)
    -- Company business trip: Germany (7 per cent), Spain (6 per cent),
       Sweden (3 per cent), Greece (3 per cent), UK (1 per cent), Netherlands
       (1 per cent), U.S. (1 per cent)
    -- Late night working: Germany (12 per cent), U.S. (10 per cent), Greece
       (9 per cent), Spain (5 per cent), Sweden (5 per cent), UK (4 per
       cent), Netherlands (less than 1 per cent)



Survey Methodology

This survey was conducted online within Germany, Greece, The Netherlands,
Spain, Sweden, The United Kingdom, and the US, respectively, by Harris
Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder.com and CareerBuilder.co.uk among 566
employees from Germany, 396 employees from Greece, 428 employees from The
Netherlands, 427 employees from Spain, 436 employees from Sweden, 507
employees from The United Kingdom, and 6,704 employees from The US (employed
full-time; not self-employed, respectively) ages 18 and over between November
3, and December 28, 2007. Based on the pure probability of each country's
sample size, could say with a 95 per cent probability that the respective
results have a sampling error of +/- 4.2 percentage points for Germany. 
+/- 4.9 percentage points for Greece, +/- 4.7 percentage points for The
Netherlands, +/- 4.7 percentage points for Spain, +/- 4.7 percentage points
for Sweden, +/- 4.4 percentage points for The United Kingdom, and +/- 1.2
percentage points for the US.

About CareerBuilder.co.uk

CareerBuilder UK is one of the most visited online job sites in the
United Kingdom, with more than one million unique visitors in April 2008,
according to comScore. Owned by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Tribune
Company, The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:
MSFT), CareerBuilder.co.uk powers the career centres for more than 160
individual UK sites that reach national, local, industry and niche audiences.
Job seekers visit CareerBuilder.co.uk every month to search for opportunities
by industry, location, company and job type, sign up for automatic e-mail job
alerts, and get advice on job hunting and career management. For more
information about CareerBuilder products and services, visit
http://www.careerbuilder.co.uk.

Media Contact:
    Tanya Flynn
    +1-773-527-5393
    Tanya.Flynn@careerbuilder.com



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