世論 What Japan Thinks

With the annual new recruit intake for Japanese businesses about to start on April 1st (or April 2nd this year), goo Ranking published a timely survey on what sort of behaviour people would like to warn new recruits about. As usual, the only information regarding the carrying out of the survey is that the fieldwork was done between the 22nd and 24th of February. The scores reported are the relative votes for each option, with the top vote getter at 100 points.

As for me, I think I manage about sixteen or seventeen! How do you do?

Regarding our team’s newest recruit from last year, the only thing personally I’d like to warn him about (apart from to stop constantly sniffing every hour of every day of every week!) is that although our office is casual dress, his trousers are just a bit too saggy and his shirt-tail hangs out around his bum.

Ranking results

Q: What sort of behaviour would you most like to warn new recruits against?

Rank	Behaviour	Score
1	Taking days off for no reason	100
2	Not bothering about taking over-long breaks	95.0
3	Ignoring or not answering the phone	90.7
4	Not greeting people	90.4
5	Frivolous use of words	89.6
6	Not turning mobile phone off during meetings	77.9
7	Coming to work late	77.9
8	Coming to work just in the nick of time	69.1
9	Taking time off at busy periods	63.6
10	Often whispering (gossiping) during work	63.0
11	Talking about company internal information outside work	59.9
12	Using mobile phone for personal business during work	55.0
13	Inappropriate use/misue of polite language	53.8
14	Coming in late or taking a day off after a drinking session	53.4
15	Making excuses for mistakes	52.1
16	Not taking care of personal appearance	50.5
17	Not putting mobile phone into manner mode	49.7
18	Not taking notes	49.4
19	Viewing web sites not related to work	47.4
20	Snoozing at one’s desk	45.4
21	Using work materials for private matters	43.9
22	Using young person’s language	41.3
23	Gaudy clothes or hairstyle	37.2
24	Computer volume too loud	28.8
25	Taking a paid holiday most Mondays	28.2
26	Leaving documents lying about on desks	27.1
27	Using mobile phone freely	21.8
28	Having a messy desk	21.5
29	Not following order of precedence manners	18.9
30	Not having an organised computer	18.6