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About Half Of IT Workers Admit Sleeping On The Job, Kissing Co-Workers

charts Does your job wear you out? You’re not alone. More than half of IT workers say they’ve fallen asleep at work, according to a new online survey.

And, nearly half of techies also are apparently in the mood for love. Forty-seven percent of tech pros admit they’ve kissed a co-worker, according to the online survey of 5,700 U.S. workers, including 163 techies, conducted by Harris Interactive for job site Careerbuilder.com.


The survey didn’t indicate if those work taboos were committed by the same respondents, but in both cases, men were more likely to admit doing both.

Forty-nine percent of male techies say they’ve fallen asleep at work, while only 35% of women admitted doing so. As for smooching, 44% of men techies say they’ve kissed a co-worker, while only 34% confessed to puckering up with a colleague.

Across all professions surveyed, 45% admitted to having fallen asleep on the job. And nearly two-thirds of government workers — 64% — admitted to falling asleep on the job. Maybe because they spend so much time on their feet, workers in retail were least likely to fall asleep on the job.

So what’s going on? Careerbuilder.com career advisor Tanya Flynn says the number of workers admitting to committing workplace taboos, especially sleeping, kissing, and drinking on the job, has been rising since the company began the annual poll three years ago.

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