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People who cheat on their spouses are much more likely to engage in workplace misconduct, according to a study from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas.
The researchers examined the records of people who used the Ashley Madison marital infidelity website to develop its findings. Data from the website, which operates using the slogan "Life is short. Have an affair," became available in the public domain after a hack in 2015. The researchers, who had access to 36 million user accounts, found that the professionals they studied were more than twice as likely to engage in corporate misconduct than the rest of the population.
After matching misconduct professionals to misconduct-free individuals with similar ages, genders and experiences and controlling for a wide range of executive and cultural variables, the researchers found that people with histories of misconduct were significantly more likely to use the Ashley Madison website.
"This is the first study that's been able to look at whether there is a correlation between personal infidelity and professional conduct," said Samuel Kruger, a faculty member at the University of Texas who co-authored the report. "We find a strong correlation, which tells us that infidelity is informative about expected professional conduct."
The report goes on to make a strong connection between people's actions in their personal and professional lives and suggests that eliminating workplace sexual misconduct may also reduce fraudulent activity.
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