Posted on 02/04/2022 9:41:45 AM PST by Brookhaven
Research from the Center for Work-Life Policy shows mid-level, professional women need powerful, senior executives to help promote them to the next level of management.
In that same CWLP study, 34% of executive women claim they know a female colleague who has had an affair with a boss. Furthermore, 15% of women at the director level or above admitted to having affairs themselves.
And worse, 37% claim the action was rewarded: they said that women involved in affairs received a career boost as a result.
Meanwhile, all this hanky-panky is really screwing the rest of us, says Slyvia Ann Hewlett at Harvard Business Review’s Blog:
61% of men and 70% of women lose respect for a leader involved in an affair. Most poisonous of all, when a junior woman is having a sexual dalliance with the boss, 60% of male executives and 65% of female executives suspect that salary hikes and plum assignments are being traded for sexual favors. This can have a disastrous effect on morale and productivity. Forty-eight percent of men and 56% of women feel animosity towards the involved couple, and 39% of men and 37% of women see a fall off in productivity as the team splinters. Talk about collateral damage!
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Office romances between executives and their subordinates have been off limits in the corporate world for decades, because it destroys morale in the workplace. As well as giving an unfair, insider advantage to the participants.
It pays to be the boss.
Ask the Indo-Jamaican usurping the VP spot.
She can tell you about sleeping your way to the top.
As long as there are humans there will be office affairs and women climbing the ladder on their backs and getting movie parts on the casting couch. A company may be able to reduce its severity but it will always be with us.
You win the thread!
Anyone that is OK with take the jab or get fired should have no problem with sleep with me or get fired.
Now that you mention it, I have to wonder if the “no big deal” reaction from the press is due to the VP doing the exact same thing.
Once upon a time, men and women met in school, dated, got married and then she became a simple housewife by age 22.
Then women entered the workforce a little more. They delayed marriage, some women rejecting the boys from school, hoping for someone more successful later. These working women dated people at work. Sometimes the boss. They got married. But they didn't become simple housewives. They stayed in the workforce and were perceived as getting special treatment because their husband was a big shot where they worked.
We keep trying to re-invent male-female relationships, but I don't think we're making anything better.
“Payin’ the cost to be the boss!”
Women have always used sex as a weapon.
Indeed.
I’ll bet the other 63% are really pi$$ed off!
Four times that many have slept with voters and most of them get elected.
With all of the female execs in charge these days, I wonder if males will enjoy the benefits of an office romance?
Well, it is not as if most of them are all brawny and able to physically dominate.
I’m sorry but how do they come up with these stats. They all seem like pulled out of a hat.
“And 37% Of Them Got Promoted For It”
what does that say about the other 63%? not hot enough in bed?
72% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
“female execs in charge these days, I wonder if males will enjoy the benefits of an office romance?”
What it does is turn the workplace into drama, drama, drama.
Drama if he says yes.
Drama is he says no.
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