“Office hours sometimes get very hectic,” says 25-year-old D. Karthik as he waits with his colleague and fiancée, K. Tejaswania, at the juice bar of their employer, Mphasis. “If we are still able to adjust to it with our partners, that shows we are best for each other。”

　　“上班時間有時會十分忙碌，如果我們能夠與戀人共同適應這種狀況，就說明我們是最適合彼此的，”今年25歲的D。卡蒂克(D. Karthik)表示，他與他的同事兼未婚妻K。泰賈斯瓦尼婭(K. Tejaswania)正在他們就職的公司Mphasis的果汁吧等候著。

　　In a country in which young people used to outsource the business of finding a spouse to their parents, workers in Indias growing outsourcing sector often look for partners themselves among their nearest colleagues。

　　在印度，過去年輕人的婚姻往往由父母包辦，但在不斷發展的外包行業，職員們經常在最接近的同事中尋找自己的伴侶。

　　Far from discouraging such relationships, their employers are happy to play matchmaker, according to a new study by the Indian School of Business, the countrys prestigious MBA college in Hyderabad。

　　根據印度商學院(Indian School of Business)最新調查，對于辦公室戀情，公司方面非但不加以阻止，還樂于撮合。印度商學院是該國知名MBA學院，位于海德拉巴。

　　One of Indias most important industries with export revenue of more than $40bn a year, the outsourcing sector has been at the forefront of economic, social and cultural change since its emergence in the 1990s。

　　外包行業是印度最重要行業之一，每年出口收入超過400億美元，崛起于上世紀90年代，此后一直處于經濟、社會和文化變革的前沿。

　　The ISB cites a survey by Monsterindia, part of the global recruitment site Monster Worldwide, that found nearly 58 per cent of 12,191 respondents admitted to either having indulged in, or being open to, office romance. “There is a perception that a lot of companies are encouraging this trend because this accrues benefits to the organisation,” the ISB study by students Anshumita Sen and Naina Bhattacharya says。

　　印度商學院援引了國際招聘公司Monster Worldwide旗下Monsterindia所作的一項調查，該調查發現，在接受調查的12191人中，近58%的人承認有過辦公室戀情或對之持開放態度。“人們感覺到，很多公司都鼓勵這種趨勢，因為對組織有利，”調查報告表示。實施該調查的是兩名學生安蘇米塔·森(Anshumita Sen)和奈納?巴塔查里亞(Naina Bhattacharya)。

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