Summary of "Workplace Pet Peeves"

Paragraph 1: The new Ipsos Public Affairs-Ranstad survey in US shows that there are a variety of workplace pet peeves. The top two are poor time management 43% and gossip 36%.

Paragraph 2: People with poor time management skills are most commonly regarded as top workplace pet peeves, showing in a variety of annoyances to frustrate workers.

Paragraph 3: Using social media during work hours is also considered as many workers’ frustrations, while the most commonly related to two sites such as Facebook or Twitter.

Paragraph 4: There are also a variety of email pet peeves.

Paragraph 5: People deal with these varieties of pet peeves in different ways. Typically employees make direct respond.

Summary:

The article titled “Poor Time Management and Gossip Top the List of Workplace Pet Peeves” published online Thursday, May 06, 2010 discusses the findings of a survey conducted by Ipsos that there are a variety of workplace pet peeves. The biggest annoyance amongst coworkers is poor management skills 43%, followed up by gossip 36%. The article then lists a number of time management problems, with excess breaks by coworkers as their chief aggravation. Next the article discusses workers’ frustrations with the use of social media like Facebook and Twitter, and also mentions how misuse of email is as a workplace pet peeve. At last it illustrates the different ways workers deal with pet peeves. In conclusion, this article tells us the results of the pet peeves survey, and also shows the differences across demographic groups, younger workers vs. older workers, women vs. men.