Earlier this year, Movehut revealed what the most annoying technical malfunctions were in an office environment. Now we can reveal what most gets on your nerves about your fellow colleagues in the office. So what are the top five most annoying office habits as judged by a poll of 2,500 office workers?
Eating loudly at your desk or in the office canteen is a pet hate with over half of those surveyed. 57 per cent found this trait the most annoying of all. But is listening to someone tuck into their sandwich really that annoying? I guess it depends on whether you have already eaten your dinner or not.
A close second was a messy colleague with 32 per cent. A famous quote by Albert Einstein once said: “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, then what are we to think of an empty desk?” So is a messy desk really that bad as, according to a genius, it shows at least that they are working.
Failure to clean-up after themselves was voted third in the poll as the most annoying office habit with over a quarter of people. 27 per cent of people found that staff members who fail to clean their own pots and simply leave them in the sink for someone else to do is a big no no.
Coupled with number one, this could put anyone in a bad mood for the rest of the day. Let’s face it, who wants to listen to someone eat a tuna mayonnaise sandwich as their desk? This was voted as the most annoying habit by 26 per cent of office workers in the poll.
Again with 26 per cent of people, lateness by fellow colleagues can ruffle a few feathers in the office. After all who wants to watch someone come in 15 minutes late, but leave bang on time at 5pm?
That compiles our list of the top five most annoying habits in the office workplace. Food seems to be responsible for the majority of traits that irritates people in the office, as David Cherrie who works as a Marketing Controller at Ainsley Harriott Cup Soup commented.
He said: “It’s interesting that, rather than professional bugbears, such as not listening and talking over each other, its food-related grievances that come out on top.”
Do any of these habits annoy you in the office? Would you have a word with a colleague who was annoying you or would you do the British thing and simply sit in silence and put up with it?
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