According to a
survey released at the beginning of the week, fellow workers who spend their day gossiping, organizing their home life, or clicking on the "Reply to All" button in the mailing client interfere most in the office.
A survey that Harris Interactive conducted among 2429 American respondents revealed that the most annoying factor in the workplace was gossip, chatter - 60% of respondents agreed with this opinion.
An online survey conducted by the Randstad USA staffing agency showed that the second largest irritant factor (54%) was the poor distribution of staff time, as they were distracted during working hours for unnecessary phone calls and surfing the Web.
The disorder in collective places, like dirty dishes in sinks, was irritated by 45% of respondents, and 42% of employees did not like the strong odors of perfume, tobacco smoke and food.
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As it turned out, loud conversations and ringtones on mobile phones didn’t like 41% of employees, excessive use of electronic personal communication devices at meetings — 28%, and improper use of email (pressing the “answer all” button instead of just “answer”) - 22% .
Despite the fact that most people didn’t like some of their colleagues, not all of them could say so. So, to make a colleague's remark that he speaks too loud, 42% of employees would have decided, 34% could speak out about chatter, and only 25% about the misuse of the “e-mail”.