STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 30 /PRNewswire/ --

-Swedish Workers are the Most Likely to Start Office Romance at a Company Holiday Party or Picnic-

If you are interested in dating co-workers, then a new survey from Jobbguiden.se reveals that Greece, the Netherlands and Spain may be the best places for you to work. Out of the countries surveyed, Greek workers (66 percent) are the most likely to have engaged in an office romance, followed by workers in the Netherlands (51 percent), Spain (46 percent), Sweden (40 percent), the UK (40 percent) and the U.S. (40 percent). Workers in Germany (28 percent) are the least likely to have dated a co-worker.

Dating Higher Ups

The data suggests that in Spain, the Netherlands and Greece, men are more likely to have dated a co-worker in a higher position than women workers in those countries. In Sweden, the UK, Germany and the U.S., women are more likely to have dated someone in a higher position than men in those countries.

Percent of workers who have dated co-workers in higher positions (overall and by gender)

-- Sweden: 25 percent (Men: 19 percent, Women: 32 percent) -- UK: 22 percent (Men: 14 percent, Women: 30 percent) -- Spain: 58 percent (Men: 64 percent, Women: 49 percent) -- Netherlands: 41 percent (Men: 41 percent, Women: 38 percent) -- Germany: 24 percent (Men: 18 percent, Women: 30 percent) -- Greece: 38 percent (Men: 40 percent, Women: 34 percent) -- United States: 27 percent (Men: 20 percent, Women: 37 percent)

Where is office romance most accepted?

Workers in the Netherlands (93 percent) are the least likely to have to keep their work relationships secret, followed by workers in Spain (77 percent), Germany (70 percent), the UK (69 percent), U.S. (66 percent), Greece (62 percent) and Sweden (57 percent).

Getting Married

Out of all the workers surveyed, the results suggest that U.S. workers (29 percent) were most likely to marry co-workers they dated, followed by workers in the UK (21 percent), Germany (19 percent), Spain (17 percent) and Sweden (16 percent). Workers from Greece (5 percent) and the Netherlands (4 percent) were the least likely to marry a co-worker they dated.

Where the Love Begins

Happy hour is the most popular place to start an office romance in the UK, Spain and Greece. In Sweden and Germany, romance most commonly starts at the company holiday party or company picnic and in the U.S. and the Netherlands, running into someone outside of work is the most popular way to begin office relationships.

Office romances began at: -- Happy Hour: UK (17 percent), Spain (17 percent), Greece (11 percent), U.S. (11 percent), Sweden (10 percent), Netherlands (6 percent), Germany (2 percent) -- Outside of Work: Sweden (13 percent), Germany (13 percent), U.S. (13 percent), Spain (12 percent), UK (9 percent), Netherlands (8 percent), Greece (6 percent) -- Company holiday party or company picnic: Germany (16 percent), Sweden (16 percent), UK (7 percent), Spain (5 percent), Greece (4 percent), U.S. (3 percent) Netherlands (2 percent) -- At lunch: U.S. (11 percent), Germany (7 percent), UK (6 percent), Spain (5 percent), Sweden (4 percent), Netherlands (4 percent), Greece (3 percent) -- Company off-site meeting: Greece (6 percent), UK (5 percent), Spain (4 percent), Germany (3 percent), Netherlands (2 percent), U.S. (2 percent), Sweden (less than 1 percent) -- Company business trip: Germany (7 percent), Spain (6 percent), Sweden (3 percent), Greece (3 percent), UK (1 percent), Netherlands (1 percent), U.S. (1 percent) -- Late night working: Germany (12 percent), U.S. (10 percent), Greece (9 percent), Spain (5 percent), Sweden (5 percent), UK (4 percent), Netherlands (less than 1 percent)

Survey Methodology

This survey was conducted online within Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, The United Kingdom and the US, respectively, by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder.com and Jobbguiden.se among 566 employees from Germany, 396 employees from Greece, 428 employees from The Netherlands, 427 employees from Spain, 436 employees from Sweden, 507 employees from The United Kingdom, and 6,704 employees from The US (employed full-time; not self-employed, respectively) ages 18 and over between November 3, and December 28, 2007. Based on the pure probability of each country's sample size, could say with a 95 percent probability that the respective results have a sampling error of +/- 4.2 percentage points for Germany. +/- 4.9 percentage points for Greece, +/- 4.7 percentage points for The Netherlands, +/- 4.7 percentage points for Spain, +/- 4.7 percentage points for Sweden, +/- 4.4 percentage points for The United Kingdom, and +/- 1.2 percentage points for the US.

About Jobbguiden.se

Jobbguiden.se is one of Sweden's largest job sites and a subsidiary of CareerBuilder.com, the leading online job site in the U.S. The company offers Internet solutions within job postings, career advice and Employer Branding for both employers and job seekers. The site was launched in 2004 and has since then helped thousands of employers to connect with job seekers within all categories of work. With the goal of being the largest job site in Sweden, Jobbguiden.se has grown quickly and will continue its expansion rapidly in the next following years. Today Jobbguiden.se has a number of partnerships and powers the career sites for many other big Swedish web sites, both broad and niche sites, in order to reach as many job seekers as possible. For more information about Jobbguiden.se, visit http://www.jobbguiden.se.

Contact: Jobbguiden.se Jenny Lovgren +46-08-522-167-51 Jenny.Lovgren@jobbguiden.se

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Jenny Lovgren of Jobbguiden.se, +46-08-522-167-51, Jenny.Lovgren@jobbguiden.se