{"id":654,"date":"2007-02-13T07:22:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T13:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/the-office-love-trend\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T07:22:45","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T13:22:45","slug":"the-office-love-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/the-office-love-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office Love Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inc.com offers <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/inc\/headlines\/~3\/90097485\/dating.html\" target=\"_blank\">As Valentine&#8217;s Day Approaches, Office Romance on the Rise<\/a> &#8211; an appropriate story the day before Valentine&#8217;s. Check out the lede:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The number of workers caught canoodling at work has skyrocketed over the past year, according to new research. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That deserves mention simply for using the verb &#8220;canoodling.&#8221; When is the last time you read that in a business article? Yeah, I know, maybe last year at this time. Anyway, the stats:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Four out of 10 U.S. workers<\/strong> admit to being involved with another colleague at some point, according to a new survey by Spherion, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based employment firm, and Harris Interactive.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Twenty-five percent<\/strong> of workplace relationships eventually lead to marriage, according to the Spherion study. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I mention that last stat since I am in that 25% group. I met my wife at work and we did get married while working at the same company. She worked in marketing and I worked in sales &#8211; a match made in heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inc.com offers As Valentine&#8217;s Day Approaches, Office Romance on the Rise &#8211; an appropriate story the day before Valentine&#8217;s. Check out the lede: The number of workers caught canoodling at work has skyrocketed over the past year, according to new research. That deserves mention simply for using the verb &#8220;canoodling.&#8221; When is the last time you read that in a business article? Yeah, I know, maybe last year at this time. Anyway, the stats: Four out of 10 U.S. workers admit to being involved with another colleague at some point, according to a new survey by Spherion, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based employment firm, and Harris Interactive. &#8230; Twenty-five percent of&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/the-office-love-trend\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-ay","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->