Thursday, April 27, 2023

Threats To Marriage In The Workplace

“From flirting to flings, men and women are looking for romance in the workplace— and many are finding it!” writes MSNBC.com health editor Charlene Laino about a survey of thirty-one thousand persons on “office sex and romance,” co-commissioned by Elle. 

The survey found plenty of threats to monogamy in the workplace: 

*92 percent of respondents said a co-worker they found attractive had flirted with them 

•62 percent admitted at least one office affair (while 14 percent said they would never date someone from work) 

•42 percent were married or in a relationship at the time of an office affair 

•41 percent had sexual relations on the job, and 16 percent used a boss’s office; 

*7 percent got caught in the act, but 87 percent got away with no consequence 

•19 percent had serious employment consequences, but just 3 percent lost their jobs 

•9 percent of married philanderers said their affair led to divorce or separation, while half reported no marital consequences 

•Finally, 25 percent of women said they benefitted at work because a supervisor found them attractive, though 13 percent reported they lost a promotion because they were seen as sexually threatening.

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Chazal extolled the virtues of working. EMES!! But we have to remember that working then wasn't like working now.... 

Similarly, many Chachmei Yisrael extolled the value of a secular education but university is not just a place to acquire knowledge.