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Does Religion Have a Home in the Workplace?

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NEW YORK (December 6, 2004) - As the phrase "moral values" continues to spark debate, how do job seekers feel about religion in the workplace? Executive job search service TheLadders.com sought to find out by surveying executive-level job seekers across the country.

Does religion have a home in the workplace?
Geography Yes No
Total U.S. 32% 68%
Blue State 24% 76%
Red State 44% 56%

According to the company's survey of 3,637 executives in the $100k+ job market, a 68% majority said that religion does not have a home in the workplace. When overlaid on the 2004 U.S. electoral map, however, the results shift significantly. While a full 44% of red state respondents said that religion does belong in the workplace, only 24% of their blue state counterparts agreed, a difference of 20% (see table above).

The survey of registered $100k+ executives was conducted on TheLadders.com Web site from November 8, 2004 through December 1, 2004. The margin of error is +/- 1.61%.

"The workplace is not a democracy, so separation between church and corporation can become an exceedingly murky issue," explained TheLadders.com founder and president, Marc Cenedella. "The rule of thumb for job seekers and HR managers is not to get caught up in the particular religious sensibilities of one firm over another, but rather to look for and foster an environment that is open to many different ideas. That's the ideology that makes great career achievements possible."

Now reaching over 190,000 readers and featuring over 3,000 new $100k+ job listings each week, TheLadders.com is the largest online job search engine catering exclusively to the $100k+ market. Marc Cenedella founded TheLadders.com in July 2003 after a tenure as Senior Vice President, Finance & Operations, at HotJobs.com, ultimately shepherding that company's sale to Yahoo, Inc. (NASD: YHOO) in 2002. In May 2004 he was named Entrepreneur of the Year by award-winning marketing newsletter, MarketingSherpa, which cited TheLadders.com's unique business model as a key to its sustained growth.

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About TheLadders.com
Headquartered in New York, TheLadders.com, Inc. is a privately held company offering online job search services to recruiters and job seekers in the $100k+ employment market. Ex-HotJobs.com executive Marc Cenedella founded TheLadders.com in 2003 to address the unique job seeking and recruiting requirements in this market sector. Investors include leading venture capital firm Matrix Partners and prominent private investors such as Kevin Ryan, CEO, DoubleClick, Tom Matlack, Megunticook Management, and Robert Chefitz, NJTC Venture Fund.

In addition to its primary member-based site, the Company operates vertical job search Web sites for sales, marketing, finance, human resources, law, technology, and operations. All sites feature daily job updates as well as industry-specific weekly e-newsletters. For corporate and executive recruiters, TheLadders.com delivers the same highly personalized experience. TheLadders for Recruiters (www.recruitladder.com) enables them to easily post $100k+ job openings at no charge. The Company further differentiates itself from other online job boards that fall prey to fraudulent job postings by implementing human mediated search, ensuring all job postings are fully qualified before being published to members.

More information about TheLadders.com can be accessed at www.theladders.com.

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