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Prime Minister Gordon Brown greets Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, with a kiss at 10 Downing Street in London in March 2008.
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Kiss or shake hands with a client or colleague? That is the big dilemma which faces workers around the country every day.
Workers in Britain are "safer" to greet colleagues of the opposite sex with a handshake than a kiss, a common greeting in other parts of Europe, a study released Friday said.
A survey of 1,200 workers by recruitment firm Office Angels said some became so anxious while deciding whether to kiss or shake hands that one in eight forgot the name of the person they were greeting.
One fifth had an embarrassing clash of faces as they tried to kiss, and one in 10 became so flustered they resorted to waving instead.
A similar number had actually allowed a colleague to sit through a meeting with lipstick on their cheek.
And an over-enthusiastic few said they had ended up accidentally groping a colleague or client after opting for a kiss while the other one tried to shake hands.
Londoners were most likely to be concerned about the issue, compared with workers in Northern Ireland, where most always went for a handshake, according to the research by the recruitment firm.
"My advice would always be, if in any doubt, go for a handshake. A handshake is always considered professional and courteous, and being on the safe side of formal is never a bad thing in a work place situation." David Clubb, the managing director of Office Angels said.
(Agencies) |
問(wèn)候客戶(hù)或同事時(shí)，是吻面還是握手？這是英國(guó)上班族每天都要面臨的一大難題。
上周五公布的一項(xiàng)調(diào)查顯示，問(wèn)候異性同事時(shí)握手比吻面“更安全”。吻面在歐洲其它地區(qū)是一種很常見(jiàn)的問(wèn)候方式。
“辦公室天使”招聘公司對(duì)1200名公司職員開(kāi)展的調(diào)查顯示，有些人遇到這一兩難問(wèn)題時(shí)慌張失措，竟有八分之一的人忘了對(duì)方的名字。
五分之一的受訪(fǎng)者曾在行吻面禮時(shí)與對(duì)方尷尬“撞面”；十分之一的受訪(fǎng)者由于慌亂失措，最后還是以握手了事。
另有十分之一的受訪(fǎng)者曾讓同事面帶著紅唇印一直在會(huì)場(chǎng)坐到會(huì)議結(jié)束。
還有一些“過(guò)于熱情”的受訪(fǎng)者稱(chēng)，他們?cè)趩?wèn)候同事或客戶(hù)時(shí)曾遇到自己準(zhǔn)備行吻面禮，而對(duì)方則打算握手的情況，在這種情形下，他們則不小心摸了對(duì)方。
此外，調(diào)查顯示，與北愛(ài)爾蘭人相比，倫敦人更在意吻面還是握手這個(gè)問(wèn)題。在北愛(ài)爾蘭，上班族們最常用的是握手禮。
“辦公室天使”公司的總經(jīng)理大衛(wèi)?克拉伯說(shuō)：“我一直主張?jiān)谟腥魏我蓡?wèn)時(shí)選擇握手。握手歷來(lái)被認(rèn)為是一種職業(yè)、禮貌的問(wèn)候方式，而在工作場(chǎng)合，選擇安全的禮節(jié)總沒(méi)錯(cuò)。”
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