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These frisky 9-to-5ers are gettin’ busy at work — and they’re eagerly filling up every position.
Getting along with coworkers is key to workplace harmony. But getting it on with sexy staffers at the office is typically taboo.
The naughtiness of colleague coitus notwithstanding, an October 2023 survey on the Top 10 professions in which a person in a committed relationship is most likely to cheat found that 85% of affairs occur on the job — with one in five employees confessing to being unfaithful with a work associate.
“The allure of the forbidden fruit can be fairly tempting, especially in an environment where professionalism and boundaries are expected to be upheld,” said the authors of the report, conducted by online gambling platform RantCasino, adding, “many can’t help but take a bite.”
Laura O’Brien, a chief spokesperson RantCasino, tells The Post that in-office cheating is incredibly common as overworked coworkers often lean on one another for stress relief from the daily grind.
“A place where everyone presents their best selves, take lunches together as well as regular coffee breaks, the workplace undeniably serves as a fertile ground for affairs to blossom,” she said.
“In addition to physical affairs,” continued O’Brien, “emotional affairs are prevalent according to the survey, suggesting that people are drawn to colleagues who understand the intensity and challenges of their job.”
For the survey’s freaky findings, analysts polled 3,800 folks across the UK — 1,644 of whom copped to doing dirty work with a fellow employee — to determine which professional industries most frequently double as hotbeds for NSFW dalliances.
And salesmen and women ranked the highest for risqué business.
“People who work in sales stacked up as the top cheaters with a striking 14.5% (239 individuals) admitting to having workplace affairs,” said researchers. “Often with irregular working hours and numerous work functions or networking events to attend, [the sales industry is] at the forefront as a prime breeding ground for infidelity.”
Trailing closely behind the raunchy wheelers and dealers are the hot-to-trot hedonists at the chalkboards teaching tots their ABCs and 123s.
“The second most common cheaters are in education — professors, teachers and lecturers,” read the survey, which found that 13.7% of workplace homewreckers are academics. “Intelligence is indeed sexy, and you never know what sort of extracurricular activity your teacher spouse is involved in.”
Securing the third-most X-rated role on the adulterous roster are healthcare workers.
“Plagued by long and unpredictable hours, overnight emergency shifts, and paramount stress,” said data experts, “health professionals may seek solace with someone who is in the same field and understands their daily struggles.”
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The survey, too, revealed that nearly 25% of all on-the-clock affairs took place in the office — namely during holiday hoopla.
“348 respondents agreed that the affair flourished at workplace gatherings or events such as the notorious Christmas party,” researchers wrote.
And while a number of the study’s two-timing participants claimed their partners never learned of their philandering, the majority admitted to getting caught — either through saucy text messages, curious bank statements, contracting a sexually transmitted disease or otherwise.
The poll results echo those of an August 2023 probe which found that a whopping 40% of adult Americans have hooked up with a workmate. And in October, a man who engaged in extramarital rolls in the hay with coworkers for over a decade advised suspecting wives to follow a “tech trail” that can lead them to discover whether their partners are, too, betraying their trust.
Unsurprised by the commonality of cubicle creeping, O’Brien says the intimate bonds formed between two people on a job can often fill an empty space in their hearts.
“Familiarity builds attraction,” she told The Post, “and the temptation to seek that missing something in their existing relationship can ultimately sow the seeds of an affair.”
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