Thirty-three percent of workers aged 56 to 60 admitted to having dated a coworker while they worked at the same company, according to data from Comparably. The data is from a June 2 reading of an ongoing query of more than 5,000 workers in the technology industry.
Your chances increase with time
Thirty-three percent was the highest rate among any age group. The lowest rate was among workers 18 to 25, 23% of whom admitted to having dated a coworker.
Note: While the general trend was that the chance of a coworker relationship grew with age, it appeared to drop off drastically among those workers 61 and up. This was likely a result of those age groups having a significantly smaller sample size; therefore, we excluded that data.
Operations is for lovers
Thirty-four percent of employees who work in operations selected “yes” when asked if they had ever dated a coworker they were working with at the time. Only 22% of employees in engineering said the same.
Women in operations were most likely to report having dated a coworker (38%). Women in legal were least likely to report the same (18%).
Cities with the highest rates
Workers in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Boston reported the highest rates of coworker relationships, while workers in Portland, Ore., Washington, D.C., and Salt Lake City reported the lowest rates.
