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London, Oct 5 (IANS) While the recent global financial downturn saw employees competing with each other to survive at the workplace, the challenging phase also seemed to have built up a spirit of camaraderie among a lot of them.

According to a British study, most of the employees would rather take a pay cut than see colleagues lose their jobs.

Despite the rising cost of living or difficulties many people face to make ends meet, 62 percent of office workers said they would forego part of their salary if it kept other staff in employment, the Daily Express reported.

The study says the hard times have brought staff together as they have relied on others to get contracts and projects completed.

In its survey, the serviced office finder officebroker.com, asked 500 employees of firms what they would be willing to give up to cut their employer’s costs and help save jobs.

Nearly half would sacrifice lunch breaks and be willing to eat at their desks to get more work done.

Compromising with cigarette breaks came next with 14 percent backing this move. Some 12 percent would work through their weekends and eight percent would give up their company car.

But, at the same time, 38 percent of the people rather wouldn’t mind their colleagues being sacked if it meant maintaining or increasing their salary.

Chris Meredith, of officebroker.com, who said the results showed that money was not always the key motivation for workers, also agreed that for some people money is their sole motivating factor.