{"id":3733,"date":"2018-04-11T17:49:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T17:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2018-04-11T17:50:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T17:50:12","slug":"most-likely-to-date-colleague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/most-likely-to-date-colleague\/","title":{"rendered":"People in Communications Are Most Likely to Date Their Colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thirty-nine percent of people who work in the communications department at tech companies say they have dated a co-worker, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query<\/a> by Comparably<\/a>. More than 10,000 people across the tech sector participated in the query.<\/p>\n

Comms had the highest rate; engineering had the lowest<\/b><\/p>\n

Of all of the departments surveyed, communications had the highest rate (39%), followed next by those in executive roles, operations and sales (all 38%). The lowest rates were reported by those in engineering (31%).<\/p>\n

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Men vs. women overall<\/b><\/p>\n

Thirty-five percent of respondents overall said they had dated a coworker while at the same company. The rates were just slightly different between men and women: 34% men and 36% women.
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People 36 to 40 had the highest rates<\/b><\/p>\n

From an age perspective, there were no great differences in the rate of people who say they have dated a coworker. That said, 37%\u00a0percent of people aged 36 to 40 said they had dated a coworker while at the same company (37%), the highest rate of any age group. People 35 and younger had the lowest rates (34%).<\/p>\n

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The latest reading is as of April 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thirty-nine percent of people who work in the communications department at tech companies say they have dated a co-worker, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. More than 10,000 people across the tech sector participated in the query. Comms had the highest rate; engineering had the lowest Of all of the … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733"}],"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=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3740,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions\/3740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}