The top ten gripes workers have about working in an office
A new national employee survey by leading job site, RemoteWorker highlights how millions of workers in the UK are unhappy working in offices or workplaces. The extensive national survey shows the top ten things employees hate about working in an office with bullying behaviour (42%) and pointless meetings (29%) topping the list.
TOP TEN EMPLOYEE OFFICE GRIPES
·Bullying Behaviour – 42%
Pointless Meetings – 29%
Office Politics – 27%
Impact on mental health – 25%
Team incentives/’bonding’ – 24%
Seeing managers – 23%
The commute – 19%
Dealing with customers – 19%
Work colleagues – 19%
Extra Costs -Travel and Lunch – 18%
The survey showed that nearly a fifth (19%) of UK employees admit to disliking their colleagues and 23% hate having to see their line manager. More than 25% of employees admitted that working in an office impacted their mental health.
Nearly all surveyed (96%) said that working from home full or part-time was one of the most positive parts of their job
RemoteWorker provides an all-encompassing remote working careers solution and offers thousands of job seekers access to the widest range of working-from-home opportunities across the UK and internationally. The leading job site processes thousands of jobs and offers the latest cutting-edge technology to give job seekers the best solution to escape the workplace and become location independent.
Joe Boll, CEO at RemoteWorker, said: “We believe every employee should have the choice to work independently from an office or workplace if possible. This is why we use the most cutting-edge tech to make it easy for anyone to find a new remote working role.
“Our national employee survey certainly highlights how many employees are disillusioned with office environments and should hopefully make employers take notice and hopefully seriously consider offering more remote working opportunities where available.”
