Job Survey, Sex

Featured Survey Results: You Cancelled What?

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In last week’s ATL / Lateral Link survey, we asked you about how often you cancelled your personal plans for work.
We received 633 responses, and, by and large, you should just stop making personal plans. Thirty-six percent of respondents had cancelled plans “too many times to count” last year, while another 17% had cancelled plans six to ten times. Eighteen percent had broken plans three to five times, and sixteen percent had cancelled plans only once or twice. Only thirteen percent of respondents never cancelled personal plans over work last year.
Associates in New York and Los Angeles were the most frequent date-breakers, with 78% of respondents in each city cancelling plans at least three to five times, and over 40% cancelling plans too many times to count. Washington, DC and the Bay Area were close behind. Associates in Atlanta, Boston, and Texas were more likely to have personal lives, with Chicago somewhere in the middle.
Most respondents, 84%, simply missed dinner, and about 70% of associates have worked through the weekend. Fifty-six percent of respondents blew off parties, and about half missed family dates. Around forty percent of associates missed dates, TV, or holidays, and around a third cancelled vacations. One quarter of associates reported that they have skipped sex to work, but only eleven percent said they had missed a religious event. Associates in Chicago were the most likely to miss dinner, while Bostonians were the most likely to cancel a date — but the least likely to miss sex.
Why all the social de-scheduling? Sixty-five percent of respondents have put their personal plans on hold because a partner asked them to finish something. Another sixty percent just decided they had things they needed to get done. Thirty-eight percent of respondents said a client told them to do it. Twelve percent needed the hours. Five and a half percent of associates just wanted to impress someone. A little over half of respondents thought the work was not important enough to justify breaking their plans.
These numbers were dramatically different for the respondents who had actually blown off sex to work. Ninety percent of these respondents were asked to finish something by a partner (at the office). Sixty percent were asked by a client. Almost a quarter thought they needed the hours, while eleven percent skipped their personal plans because they “wanted to impress people.”

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