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The number of singles in the workplace has grown by nearly 20% since 1995, a trend that is changing the long-held rules governing dating among co-workers. As more employees relax their policies, however, some are finding that interoffice romance can have its pitfalls.
A new analysis of unpublished government data by the global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., Chicago, finds that the number of employed Americans who count themselves as single has grown 18.3%, from 49,835,000 in 1995 to 58,948,000 in 2005. Singles now represent 44% of the 147,100,000 people in the civilian labor force, up from 41% 10 years ago, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Among the single workers in the labor force, 48%, or...
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