Annoying colleagues hamper workplace productivity: Report

Cultural mismatch plagues almost 60 per cent of employees, who feel intrusive co-workers interrupt their work and are the biggest drain on their performance and productivity, says a report.
According to a TimesJobs.Com survey that covered over 1,400 working professionals, 60 per cent said insensitive co-workers were to be blamed for a decrease in their personal productivity.
"For candidates, fitting into the work culture of an organisation is critical for success," Times Business Solutions, Head of Strategy, Nilanjan Roy said.
Nearly 40 per cent of the professionals who responded to the TimesJobs survey further said colleagues who tend to barge into their private space and interrupt them are the most annoying kind.

The other annoying kind of co-workers, according to 30 per cent respondents, are eternal cribbers, who tend to complain about everything.
The next are social media pokers, who react, comment and poke co-workers on social media, say 24 per cent respondents.

Another 22 per cent respondents said that chatterboxes, colleagues who talk a lot and loudly, are the most annoying type.
Around 60 per cent respondents blamed the behaviour of co-workers for hampering their workplace productivity, the report said.
According to 42 per cent of respondents, middle-level employees are the most annoying set of coworkers, as compared to senior and junior co-workers and most feel male co-workers are more annoying more than female colleagues.