• Valentine's Day is approaching so will love blossom in your office? It seems that when it comes to office romance, UK workers are a secretive lot. According to Reed, a poll of over 2000 workers found that 54% of respondents admit to secretly fancying one of their colleagues, while 70% have kept their flings secret. The research also reveals that 81% of companies have no formal policy in place to deal with office relationships which is surprising considering that 45% revealed that work is the best place to meet a life partner.

Romance results:

• One in three admitted they had exchanged suggestive emails and texts with someone at work, even though they were in a relationship with someone else.
• 38% of people have had an office romance.
• 71% of all respondents stated that they wouldn’t mind if their colleagues were having an affair in the office.
• 89% state that it was none of their business.
• Only 8% of workers said they would confront their colleagues if they discovered they were having an affair.
• 10% have ended up living with someone they had met at work
• 7% have married a work colleague. 

Lewis Woodward, head of Network Marketing, Reed
"It's surprising that people seem so totally unphased by office romances taking place around them, even though they are reluctant to open up to their own office flings. On a more serious note, with one in five workers claiming their employers did have policies around office relationships, anyone thinking about getting involved with someone in the office would be wise to check their employee manual to determine what policies actually exist. It is also worth thinking long and hard about the consequences if things go wrong.”