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Noticed your coworkers booking out a meeting room for an unspecified chat?

Yeah, they might not be chatting.

How I Do It: The dad-of-two who loves having sex in public with his girlfriend

A new survey from Yellow Octopus has found that 1 in 11 people are getting busy at work.

By which we mean they’re having sex. Not getting busy with paperwork.


Researchers surveyed over 1,000 people about their in-office behaviour, and found that sex at work is indeed happening – and perhaps with more frequency than you might expect.

Of the people surveyed, 11% said they’d had sex in the office with a co-worker, while 4% said they’d done it with a non-employee (bringing someone into the building without signing them in? Naughty).

The majority did it after office hours, but around a third managed to get away with banging mid-workday. Meaning they were technically getting paid to swan off and have orgasms. Nice.



And while you might expect oral to be the more obvious in-office sexual choice – given that it requires less clean up, less undressing, and it’s easier to play off as tying your shoes if you get caught – the majority of people getting sexual on the clock actually went for full on intercourse.

Solo sex is happening in the office, too. Which is great, considering the many benefits of the masturbation break.

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5% of the women surveyed admitted to wanking off at work, versus 13% of men. Most office masturbators are repeat offenders, with 40% of them having pleasured themselves at work more than six times.

People were found to be more likely to wank at work than to watch porn, with 3% of women and 11% of men saying they’ve watched dirty stuff at work.

What we can learn from all this: there’s probably at least one person in your office who’s boned at work. And you probably already have your suspicions as to who it is.

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But while this all may sound like great fun – and an easy way to get through the drudgery of putting all your emails into special folders – it’s worth remembering that having sex at work remains pretty risky.

14% of those who had sex at work were caught, and 79% of people reckon even fingering yourself at work should be a fire-able offence.

Other fire-able offences: 82% of people think drinking at work is deserving of being fired

79% think you should be sacked for masturbating at work

76% of people would get rid of you if you watched porn in the office

42% reckon hooking up with a coworker is a sackable offence

25% are not okay with people sleeping at work

16% would let you go if you ate a coworker’s food

So if you really value your job, it might be worth saving those burning loins for after-hours.

Or just find a meeting room with a lockable door and come up with a really solid excuse about why you need to borrow your coworker for 20 to 40 minutes.

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