{"id":1615,"date":"2017-09-15T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2017-09-13T21:43:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T21:43:30","slug":"lie-to-the-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/lie-to-the-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Millennials Are Most Likely to Admit That They Lie to Their Bosses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no way of telling who&#8217;s lying or not, but it&#8217;s safe to say that millennials are more open to &#8216;fessing up at most, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/113-how-often-do-you-lie-to-your-boss\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\">Comparably<\/a>. Eighty percent of workers aged 36 and up claim to &#8220;never&#8221; lie to their bosses. Just 65%\u00a0of workers 18 to 35 say the same.<\/p>\n<p>The differences are more interesting up close. Take workers 26 to 30, for example.\u00a0Nineteen percent admit to lying once a month or once a quarter, while 5% admit lying once a week.\u00a0That compares to workers 50 to 55, among whom\u00a09% report lying once a month or once a quarter,\u00a0and 3% once a week.<\/p>\n<p>Workers 26 to 30<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1533\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/14.jpg\" alt=\"14\" width=\"468\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/14-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/14.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 85vw, 468px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Workers 50 to 55<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1534\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/15.jpg\" alt=\"15\" width=\"467\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/15-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/15.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 85vw, 467px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Nearly 3 out of 4 workers across all age groups say they never lie to their boss.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Overall, 71% of workers say they never lie to their bosses; 10% say they lied \u201conce ever\u201d; 10% say they lie \u201conce a quarter\u201d; 5% say they lie \u201conce a month\u201d and 4% say they lie \u201conce a week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1535\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/16.jpg\" alt=\"16\" width=\"965\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/16-300x81.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/16-768x206.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/09\/16.jpg 965w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest reading is as of Sept. 13. Responses are from more than 5,000 workers across the technology industry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no way of telling who&#8217;s lying or not, but it&#8217;s safe to say that millennials are more open to &#8216;fessing up at most, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. Eighty percent of workers aged 36 and up claim to &#8220;never&#8221; lie to their bosses. Just 65%\u00a0of workers 18 to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/lie-to-the-boss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,3],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}