According to the survey, 44% employees were annoyed if their co-workers came in late or left early.
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Career site Zety.com had surveyed 1,026 American employees to know what annoys them the most at work.
Participants were asked three things:
- Everything that drives them mad at work
- How annoying those situations are
- How often they happen
According to the survey, the most annoying office situations are:
- Malfunctioning hardware or slow computer: 61% find it annoying or very annoying.
- Coworkers not washing hands before leaving the bathroom: 59% find it annoying or very annoying.
- Coworkers coming to work sick: 53% find it annoying or very annoying.
- Slow Wi-Fi: 51% find it annoying or very annoying.
- Co-workers' bad breath or body odor: 50% find it annoying or very annoying (but only 28% feel it happens often or very often).
- Printer out of paper, jammed or broken: 48% find it annoying or very annoying.
- People calling or arranging meetings to discuss things that 'could have been an e-mail': 46% find it annoying or very annoying.
- People using your mug: 45% find it annoying or very annoying (only 17% feel it happens often or very often).
- Co-workers coming in late or leaving early: 44% find it annoying or very annoying.
- Not enough parking space: 43% find it annoying or very annoying (only 31% feel it happens often or very often).