Top 10 Office Annoyances

Posted by majestic on February 10, 2010

Reuters reports that grumpy colleagues, slow computers and office jargon are the things that annoy workers most:

“Thinking outside the box” and “Let’s touch base” were the most hated buzz phrases among the 1,836 people surveyed by Opinium research. Nearly two-thirds of them said their stress levels had been increased by office irritations and one in 10 had left a job because of them. The survey found the Top 10 office annoyances were:

1. Grumpy or moody colleagues (37 percent)
2. Slow computers (36)
3. Small talk/gossip in the office (19)
4. The use of office jargon or management-speak (18)
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The most annoying jargon:

1. Thinking outside the box (21 percent)
2. Let’s touch base (20)
3. Blue sky thinking (19)
4. Blamestorming (16) (sitting down and working out whose fault something is)
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[continues at Reuters]