REVEALED | 5 most annoying colleague traits

It’s unavoidable that, unless you’re a lighthouse keeper, workers will spend the majority of their day in close contact with colleagues.

Whether it be in the cab of a cramped work van, elbow-to-elbow at a desk or round a crowded meeting room table, the habits and affectations of our peers has the potential to massively affect productivity and happiness.

Yet, inevitably, we all have colleagues that unintentionally infuriate the rest of the office with their annoying habits. In fact, in a recent study conducted by Instaprint, 58% of workers claimed that they’re regularly annoyed by their peers and just four per cent claim to have never been irked by the actions of others in the workplace.

Whilst we all have different triggers that annoy us, such as the sound of someone chewing loudly or a shrill laugh, some are so universal that in Instaprint’s study, 800 individuals agreed that these were unanimously the absolute worst office habits.