According to a survey by Vault.com, 35 percent of bosses openly share their political views with employees, and 9 percent of workers feel pressure to conform to the boss' views. Regarding co-workers, 30 percent of respondents said that a co-worker has tried to influence their choice in an election.

"My boss insisted that he had to know who I voted for in the election," said one respondent. "Then he proceeded to tell me that if I didn't vote his way, I had no business working for the company."

Vault's Politics in the Workplace Survey was conducted in October 2007, and consists of responses from 727 employees representing various industries across the United States.

Political talk is alive and well at the office, as 66 percent of survey respondents said that their co-workers candidly discuss politics, and 46 percent have witnessed an argument about politics between colleagues. Slightly more than half of all survey respondents (52 percent) said that they were open about their own political views at work.

For more on politics in the workplace, visit www.vault.com.

About Vault.com
Vault is the leading media company focused on careers. Vault offers over 120 nationally distributed books and is celebrated for its online resource, www.vault.com, which includes surveys and "insider" information on more than 4,500 employers, 4,000 colleges and universities, and hundreds of industries and occupations, as well as the much-praised Electronic WaterCooler, the Internet's first-ever network of message boards for professionals with nearly 2,000,000 searchable posts. Vault was founded in 1996 by Hussam Hamadeh, Samer Hamadeh and Mark Oldman.

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