Office Workers

  According to research commissioned by sunshine.co.uk, an increasing number of Britons are borrowing in order to go on holiday. Over a quarter of the 1,891 respondents admitted they needed to borrow in order to go on holiday while 20 percent said that they would rather be in debt than go without a break from […]

‘Desk rage’ is the new ‘road rage’, according to a U.S. real estate valuation firm, Integra Realty Resources. Among their findings of American workers, half commonly skip lunch to keep working, and 52% indicate they worked up to 12 hours a day to complete their work. Forty-two percent said yelling and verbal abuse took place […]

Workers who go out of their way to help others out with projects or who make sacrifices for the wider group are likely to be disliked by co-workers, according to four separate social psychology studies. This is because cooperative and community-minded acts are perceived to set behavioural standards too high and make others look bad. […]

According to research by PayPoint.net, half of British workers said they would leave their job and start their own business – were it not for prohibitive start-up costs and administrative demands. Sixty-four percent believed that running their own business would be more fulfilling than their present job. Online small businesses were the most attractive, with […]

  Talkative co-workers are the biggest distraction at work, according to a global survey commissioned by recruitment specialists Robert Walters. Worldwide, 48 percent of respondents reported “talkative colleagues” as the most time-consuming distraction at work, followed by personal email and internet browsing (34%), social networking sites (8%), smoking breaks (6%) and personal calls / text […]

Factory workers are the friskiest when it comes to having sex at the workplace, according to a poll of 1,434 people commissioned by Bristol-based human resources firm Reabur. Nineteen percent of factory workers admitted to having had a sexual encounter at the workplace, compared to 16 percent of office workers and 15 percent of bar […]

At least we’re good at some things. British workers, it seems, top the European league of skivers. Our 35 million sickies each year account for over a quarter of Europe’s total of 122 million, according to new research by Aon Consulting. The study covered 7,500 workers in ten European countries and differentiated between genuine work […]

Men whinge more about being ill than women, according to a study of 3,000 UK workers commissioned by Engage Mutual Assurance. The survey supports the popular belief that men complain more about ailments and pains. According to their partners, more than 57 per cent of men become attention-seeking when ill, with 65 per cent constantly […]

A Regus survey of 13 countries and regions has found that office workers on the Chinese mainland spend more time commuting than counterparts in other countries surveyed. On average, Chinese spend 42 minutes commuting to work. Next is India at 39 minutes. The figure for the US (10th in the survey) is 22 minutes. Of […]