Cupid Conquers the Cubicle: 55% of Employers Aware of Current Office Romances.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--February 10, 2000

As Valentines Day approaches, Cupid's arrows are finding their way into the workplace. A recent survey conducted by Vault.com, the Workplace Network(TM), reports that most employers are currently aware of at least one office romance at their company. No doubt to the relief of involved employees, the survey also found that today's employers rarely prohibit intra-office dating.

A remarkable 55% of the employers surveyed said that they were aware of current romances in the office. 46% reported one to five romances at their company, 6% knew of six to ten and 3% said they were aware of eleven or more.

Of the 1,240 employers surveyed by Vault.com, 70% said that their company has no policy forbidding office romances and over 95% reported that they had never personally taken action against an office romance.

As part of the survey, employers told Vault.com what they think of workplace relationships. Comments include:

-- &uot;It's a company-wide epidemic.&uot;

-- &uot;It's hard to tell. Some are public and acceptable and others are

quite clandestine.&uot;

-- &uot;We have many husband/wife employees in the company. I doubt they

were all hired as a couple from the outside.&uot;

-- &uot;Let's face it, if two people are in love, we do not have the

power to stop them. We allow people to be people and not just

workers.&uot;

This data comes from Vault.com's brand-new Survey on Workplace Romance, the first comprehensive survey on this largely unexamined subject.

In addition to studying workplace issues, Vault.com is well-known for its award-winning &uot;insider&uot; company and industry profiles on companies such as MCI WorldCom (NASDAQ: WCOM), Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Boeing (NYSE: BA), Dell Computer (NASDAQ: DELL), and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS).

About Vault.com

Vault.com (formerly VaultReports.com), The Workplace Network(TM), is the Internet's leading destination for career information and management. Vault.com's mission is to help professionals advance their careers through &uot;insider&uot; career information, online networking, online courses, job listings, and more. Just named one of the &uot;100 Best Sites for 2000&uot; and &uot;the best way to scope out potential employers&uot; by Yahoo! Internet Life, Vault.com provides &uot;insider&uot; guides on over 3,000 companies and 70 industries. It also offers the much-praised Electronic WaterCooler(TM), the Internet's first-ever network of expert-moderated message boards for employees. In addition, Vault.com offers a free job board that contains over 200,000 job postings - one of the largest job databases on the Internet. Vault.com was founded in 1996 by H.S. Hamadeh, Samer Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman, together recently named to the &uot;Silicon Alley 100: New York's 100 Most Influential Internet Executives.&uot;