Harris Interactive, on behalf of job website CareerBuilder.com, conducted the online survey of 8,038 full-time adult employees between November 12 and December 1 last year.

It was found that 10 per cent of office goers worked with someone they would like to date, and 18 per cent had dated a co-worker twice or more at some time in their careers.

On the other hand, when it came to eyeing a co-worker, the figures were quite distorted—14 per cent of men, but just five per cent of women, said that they would like to date a colleague.

Of those who dated a co-worker in the last year, one third said that it was someone with a more senior position in the company, reports the China Daily.

And among those, 42 per cent admitted to have dated their boss, said the survey.