14 DAY TRIAL // For many, going to work is like heading for the salt mines. But this is not the case of the Australians: they admit they are increasingly prone to manifest their love in the office and 20 % of them stated they had sex at work. Moreover, they recognized not only that they had sex at the office but also did it during work hours.
The linkme.com.au on-line survey aimed at the possible reasons we are getting so close and personal with mates, discovering that almost 25 % of the subjects had met their long-term partner at the working place.
Another explanation was that people spend more time in the office than ever before, which is prone to build close friendships often leading to socializing outside the working environment. Moreover, colleagues who are involved in a similar field are likely to share passions, hobbies and interests, crucial elements that most people search for in a partner. Just 13 % of the subjects saw romantic relations in the office as unethical and a mere 4 % of the employees had a no fraternizing clause in their contract.
It seems that indeed Australians get very kinky at work, as almost 10 % of them seem to use the company laptop to download pornographic material, as an international survey made by Queen's University in Belfast and security vendor SurfControl has discovered.
The survey, made in Australia, the US, UK, Singapore and the Netherlands, has found that laptop users are far more daring in surfing porn web surfing on work than those using desktop PCs.
US users were the greatest downloaders of porn with 20 % of the subjects having employed work laptops for that purpose. UK came next, with 11 %, Singapore and Australia with 10 % each. The surprise is represented by Netherlands, a nation which is famos for its liberal attitude towards sex, with just 3%. Desktop users download less porn than laptop users.
"People think out of sight is out of mind and will take more risks because they're away from the office" said SurfControl engineer Dr Richard Cullen.