Office Workers

A considerable amount of workers don’t want their boss at the office party – for fear his or her attendance will spoil the fun or bring out a violent reaction from someone. A TGI Friday-commissioned survey of 2,000 adults found that one in five did not want the manager to attend at all, one-third thought […]

A poll of workers in eight major industries has found that those in recruitment and marketing departments enjoy the office Christmas party more than any other groups. The Business Environment-commissioned survey found 51 percent of marketing staff and 46 percent of recruiters claimed to thoroughly enjoy the Xmas do, while charity and retail workers were […]

Office workers are increasingly spending their break times online, shopping, social networking and reading news. A gocompare.com survey of 3,000 office workers found that internet breaks lasted 6 hours and 23 minutes each week on average. This includes an average one hour and fifteen minutes on social networking sites and two hours five minutes reading […]

Thirty percent of British office workers kissed a colleague at last year’s Christmas office party, according to a poll commissioned by travel agency lastminute.com. Fifteen percent claimed to have had sex with a co-worker during or after the bash. The poll revealed age and regional differences. Older workers were more likely to acknowledge office party […]

Some 53.5 million Americans are reportedly bullied at work, according to the 2010 Workplace Bullying Survey released this month and based on over 6,000 interviews with adults. Rather than being confined to the playground, bullying is endemic in US offices and – contrary to the myth that only affects uneducated, unskilled workers – bullying is […]

Following on from last Thursday’s story in which we reported UK office workers consume on average 700 calories per day more than workers in other environments, a Canadian study has found that office work increases the risk of obesity. Researchers at the University of Montreal have been addressing the conundrum that, although since the 1970s […]

  Trust in the chief executives of organisations which have made estate or headcount cuts have plummeted on last year, according the Institute of Leadership & Management’s ‘Index of Leadership Trust’. Conversely, CEOs of organisations that tried alternative methods such as flexible working and budget cuts enjoyed a rise in trust. The Index measures trust […]

  A new survey commissioned to mark the release of the DVD version of of Terry Pratchett’s novel Going Postal has revealed that one in 20 workers have been reprimanded or worse for sending an inappropriate email at work. Thirteen percent of workers have sent an ill-judged email to their colleagues by mistake, while 31 […]