Germans are annoyed by dirty common areas (the community microwave or refrigerator), Indians react negatively to irritating mobile phone ringtones and Japanese staff are most peeved by office pranks.
There were also gender differences in the findings. For example, 51% of UK women were annoyed by 'clothing that's too revealing for the workplace,' while only 21% of UK men said that was a problem.
Regardless of nationality or gender, the number one pet peeve of all professionals (selected by 78% of the more than 17,000 surveyed globally) is 'people not taking ownership for their actions'. And hiring managers are much more annoyed than non-hiring managers by people 'showing up late for meetings'. In the UK this bothered 71% of hiring managers and 59% of non-hiring managers.
The country with the most pet peeves is India and the one with the fewest is Italy. The UK was the 10th most peeved country out of the 16 countries where LinkedIn conducted the research. In the UK LinkedIn surveyed over 1,000 professionals.
Potential survey candidates were contacted via email and participants' responses were voluntary. The respondents could choose from a total of 38 pet peeves that were listed in the survey.
The participants were specifically asked whether they were hiring or non-hiring managers.
