The Ask Men commenced a survey on men about their thinking on aspects like dating, marriage and sex. The survey was published in the magazine Ask Men on July 29th, 2011, which questioned men about their response on dating their colleagues at their working place.

As per the survey statistics, 55% men accepted that they were in a relationship with someone in their office and around 27% revealed that they were dating a partner who was at a lower position from them in their office.

On the aspect of having sex with their co-workers, 56% accepted that they were comfortable with it but 45% denied of having intimate relationship with their co-workers at office in order to avoid certain problems that were possible to occur.

The study was conducted on around 70,000 men from 4 countries namely, Australia, Canada, the U. K. and the United States. Moreover, 50% men revealed that they would dump their partner if she happens to gain weight.

Similarly the female oriented magazine Cosmopolitan conducted a survey on 13,000 women on the same aspect. The survey found that 45% women were comfortable and wanting to have intimate affairs with their male co-workers at the office, whereas 5% women accepted that they were already in such a relationship. The women also revealed that 20% of them would break-up with their boyfriend, if he gained weight.