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NEVER mind stressful workloads and long working hours, the main offenders in the British workplace are your colleagues, a survey has found.

Research by fish4jobs has found that over half of us (51%) admit disruptive co-workers are pushing us to consider a new career path.

The survey found that 84% of British workers confess to being driven to distraction, with smelly (59%), noisy (44%) and rude (10%) workers topping their office offenders roll of shame.

Fish4jobs - www.fish4jobs.co.uk- is the UK's leading recruitment website.

The top ten findings were:

1. Skipping the shower - around two thirds (59%) said poor personal hygiene was the worst sin that colleagues could commit

2. Holler holler holler - shouting in the office and generally making a racket winds almost half of us up (44%)

3. Being left penless - over a third (35%) of people surveyed cited stealing stationery as their colleagues most annoying habit

4. Causing technical meltdown - crashing email systems by sending huge attachments around the entire company sent a third of those surveyed running for the door (31%)

5. Cooking-up a pong - Insisting on re-heating last night's smelly dinner annoys almost a quarter of workers (22%)

6. A right mess - 15% of people surveyed said colleagues' messy desks made the whole office look like a dump!

7. Click, click, click - Constant pen clicking drives over one in ten of us insane (14%)

8. F'ing and blinding! - One in ten (10%) of us are seriously put off by foul language

9. Cracking knuckles - Weird personal habits like cracking knuckles and tapping feet infuriate around one in ten (9%) of Brits

10. Stealing suppers - Nabbing from the fridge makes 7% of those surveyed very angry

The fish4jobs report also highlights just how angry the UK workforce has become as a result.

Over a third of workers confess to getting so frustrated that they feel their only option is to complain to a member of management (36%).

However, these complaints seem to fall on deaf ears, with almost two fifths (18%) feeling they are being completely ignored, some staff even feel blamed for speaking their mind (6%).

11:33am Monday 28th April 2008

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