Work & Weddings
Meghan Casserly, 07.22.10, 04:00 PM EDTDo employees plan their weddings on company time? Survey says ... you bet they do!
Caitlin, 30, a sales rep based in Seattle, had no trouble writing the maid of honor speech for her best friend and colleague's wedding this past June. "I'd like to thank [our] corporate sponsors," she toasted the crowd, "Jet Parts engineering and F5 Networks, for handsomely rewarding Jen and [me] over the past 18 months while we planned this entire wedding on company time."
The banquet hall rang with laughter--particularly the table of colleagues who had worked alongside Caitlin and Jen while they called caterers, orchestrated bridesmaid fittings and nitpicked contracts from their desks while simultaneously juggling sales calls and meeting commission goals.
For working brides-to-be, planning a wedding on company time seems almost inevitable--But is it fair to the company and fellow employees?
While Caitlin, Jen and their colleagues made it through the engagement with their relationships intact and still managed to meet their sales goals, planning a wedding can derail an employee's focus and impact company productivity. ForbesWoman was curious about just how deeply wedding planning could disrupt an employee's job, so we teamed up with TheKnot.com and WeddingChannel.com to find out what really happens when a full-time working girl becomes a part-time wedding planner.
One-thousand fifty-five working women, 74% of whom were engaged and planning their wedding this July, completed the survey. The majority of respondents were living in the U.S., had finished four-year degrees and were employed full time, earning an average salary of $72,629.
A full 89% of brides admitted to planning their weddings on company time, but only one in three felt their workplace performance suffered as a result.
"We know every bride is planning her wedding every chance she gets, whether she's working or not," says TheKnot.com Editor-in-Chief Carley Roney. "But now we have the stats to prove it!"
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