Office affairs are even easier when you print your emails out

If you think an X at the end of your emails is merely a polite and quick sign-off, you might want to be aware of how it looks to others.

A survey from online dating site WhatsYourPrice.com has found that many British workers – 35% of women and more than a quarter of men – have found Xs in their emails being misinterpreted as being sexual propositions.

And given that 86% of respondents said that they use Xs in their emails to colleagues, perhaps it’s a misinterpretation they’d like to continue, say over drinks after work.

It certainly isn’t all innocent – X may mark the cheat. The survey found that 55 per cent of women and 60 per cent of men who had had work affairs had had them initially sparked by Xs in messages, which is not even counting words like “sexy”, “minx” and “X-rated”.

It’s not clear whether people interpret an O as a come-on, but it certainly is very curvaceous. 

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