The Numbers

- According to a 2005 Office Romance Survey conducted by Vault, Inc., 58% of employees say they have been involved in an office romance, up 12% from the results from two years ago

- According to a 2002 workplace romance survey conducted jointly by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and Career Journal.com, 75% of HR professionals and 59% of executives said their organizations did not have a policy on workplace romance.


- 81% of HR professionals and 76% of executives said that workplace romances were dangerous.


- According to 2004 statistics compiled by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that represented the number of charges of sexual harassment that were made and resolved in the work place, 13,136 claims were made that year. Due to the13,136 claims of sexual harassment made that year, companies across the country had to shell out monetary benefits in the combined total of $37.1 million.


- The SHRM study also found that only 12 percent of the surveyed organizations provided training to managers and supervisors about how to manage a workplace romance.