Reopening After COVID-19 Will Be Good for Sex Life, Say One in Three Singles

Now you have another good reason to be wary of your coworker who is a bit too excited to return to the office.

More than one in three professionals (35%) who are single believe the reopening of offices and other places will help their sex life, the professional social network Blind found in a new survey. The total is more than double the number of single professionals who think post-COVID-19 pandemic reopenings will hurt their sex life (16%).

57% of professionals in a relationship think the reopening of offices and other places will have no effect on their sex life, according to a survey from Blind.

Half or more of the single professionals at Indeed.com (63%), Capital One (50%), Cisco (50%), NVIDIA (50%) and Salesforce (50%) surveyed by Blind were the most optimistic about their chances of getting lucky.

Relationships in the workplace

Business leaders should have no reason to fret: Prospects for a workplace tryst were not among the top reasons for the good vibes behind returning to the office.

Instead, professionals are most excited about the opportunity to meet others outside of their homes, local grocery stores or other places that public health measures may have limited them from visiting over the past two years.

“I will actually have a reason to meet people in real life,” explained a verified Bank of America professional who was single and believed office reopenings would help their sex life.

A single professional at Deloitte agreed, noting they looked forward to “meeting people in person with common interests.”

About half of single professionals thought the reopenings of the office and places of daily life would not affect their sex life. Many pointed to dating apps, continued remote work or hybrid-work schedules, and a deep-seated desire to avoid workplace relationships.

“Hinge and Tinder still exist,” said a verified Google professional who identified as single. “I’m getting laid.”

“Few jobs require people after 8,” a verified professional at NBCUniversal Media, who said they were single, stated plainly. “Sex can happen.”

Other professionals reported unchanged personal circumstances since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It was like that pre-COVID,” noted a single PwC professional in Blind’s survey, referring to their sex life before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Coupled professionals see no impact

Most people don’t expect to see any meaningful differences from return-to-office plans or post-pandemic reopenings, Blind found.

A verified Rackspace professional noted their “sex life wasn’t affected by COVID and WFH changes.”

The majority of professionals in a relationship (57%) surveyed by Blind foresee no impact on their sex life for any post-pandemic reality.

35% of professionals who are single believe the reopening of offices and other places will help their sex life, according to a survey from Blind.

“Going to the office doesn’t change anything,” said a verified Amazon professional who is in a relationship.

Alternatively, one-third or more of coupled professionals at LinkedIn (47%), Robinhood (38%) and Salesforce (37%) believe steamier times with their partners are in store. Most of these professionals shared that being away from their significant other might create more attraction.

“Distance makes the heart grow fonder,” a verified Riot Games employee opined.

The bottom line

More than one in three professionals surveyed by Blind say the lifting of public health guidelines will help their sex life. Professionals cited the reopening of workplaces and other places as some of the top reasons for their optimism. Many people are looking forward to resuming social activities and daily life as it existed before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methodology

Blind conducted an online survey of 2,517 verified professionals on its platform from May 9 to 10, 2022, to understand whether they believe reopening and lifting COVID-19 pandemic safety measures will affect their sex life.

Survey respondents answered “help my sex life,” “hurt my sex life” or “no effect on my sex life” to one of the following questions:

If you are single, what do you think will be the impact of the reopening of offices and other places on your sex life?
If you are in a relationship, what do you think will be the impact of the reopening of offices and other places on your sex life?

The San Francisco Examiner cited Blind’s survey on sex and the return to the office, alongside research from the Kinsey Institute and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.