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Call centres are hotbeds of romantic liaisons

Call-centre workers are the most likely employees to have a relationship with a colleague - followed by finance and HR staff.

Lloydspharmacy polled over 3,000 people and when asked if they'd ever had a romantic indiscretion with a colleague almost one in three (29.5%) call-centre workers admitted to a romantic liaison with someone they work with.

People who work in finance (28%) and HR (26.5%) came second and third in the league table of workplace indiscretions.
 
When it comes to the regional breakdown, it was the Welsh that top the league for sharing something a little more intimate than a salad sandwich with a colleague.

Which employees are most likely to have an inter-office relationship?

Call-centre staff 29.5 %
Finance28%
HR
26.5%
IT26.5%
Marketing and advertising25.5%
Media24.5%
Recruitment24%
Sales23.5%
Hospitality23%
Government22.5%
Travel and transport22%
Law17.5%
Retail17%
Health16.5%
Education15.5%