Business Bacchanal: Sex, Booze and the Work Trip One-third of men admit to binge drinking while they are away on work trips. And that's just the percentage who 'fessed up.
By Catherine Clifford •
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It may be called a work trip, but for many people, it's quite the party.
Almost one-third of men admit to binge drinking while on business trips, according to a new survey released this week from travel risk management company On Call International. The rates were slightly lower among women: almost one-quarter of them said they had engaged in binge drinking while on a business trip.
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And that's just the percentage of the 1,000 survey respondents who fessed up.
If you take a group of stressed out, overworked professionals out of their normal environment and add a whole lot of booze, the next finding shouldn't be much of a surprise: About 1 in 10 business travelers say they have "picked up" a stranger at a bar while out of town for work, according to the survey, which was completed with a based on a Google Consumer Survey.
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More men admit to business trip hookups: 14 percent of male survey respondents say they have picked up a stranger while traveling for work, while 8 percent of women say the same.
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