Cheating on your spouse goes hand in hand with cheating in theworkplace.

That’s the conclusion of a provocative new academic study thatfound a strong correlation between adultery and workplacemisconduct by corporate executives and financial advisers.

The study came about in an unlikely way. Finance professors atthe University of Texas at Austin and Emory University were able toexamine customers of Ashley Madison, a dating site for marriedpeople looking to have affairs, or “discreet encounters” as thesite puts it. That’s because a computer hack in 2015 exposed thenames and personal data of more than 30 million users.

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