“Nothing sexy happens on Slack.”
Yesterday, I wrote about a study that said 50% of people currently have a work crush. All around the office, managers, direct reports, CEOs and peers are spending some untold portion of company time daydreaming about or flirting with each other. When I posted about this on my Instagram Story, a flood of DMs from strangers started sharing their office romance stories with me, so I decided to run an anonymous survey about how and why people engage in something so risky, and got hundreds of remarkably vulnerable, albeit anonymous, responses.
Office parties (specifically holiday ones) are a huge catalyst for these affairs. Recent holiday parties I’ve been to are remarkably boring, sober, and short. People have kids! Workouts in the morning! Need to clock in the sleep hours on their Oura ring!
Yearning was a word that came up over and over in these responses (and it happens to be a word that super-online people love right now). I once had an analyst (psych not financial) tell me that I had an “endless, insatiable wish” so I know all about yearning. I found myself getting quite affected while reading these. Continue reading Feed Me readers love office sex! ?????????