世論 What Japan Thinks

Here goes with a sort-of follow-up on my previous post on why people quit their jobs in Japan, this time it’s another goo Ranking on what people doing when they can’t face work in the morning. Just staying in bed or having a skive were not allowable options! The fieldwork for the survey was conducted between the 20th and 24th of July 2007 amongst an unspecifed number of members of the goo Research online monitor group.

Ranking results

Q: When you don’t want to go to work in the morning, what do you do to get your get-up-and-go to get up and go?

Rank	Action	Score
1	Drink coffee to tea in order to get myself together	100
2	Drink a nutritional drink	78.1
3	Listen to my favourite music	65.3
4	Think of the weekend	55.4
5	Have a shower to refresh	55.0
6	Think of what I can do after work	53.8
7	Wash face in cold water	40.6
8	Eat something sweet	39.0
9	Vocally psych myself up	36.3
10	Wear more fashionable than usual clothes, shoes	32.7
11	Think of my salary	32.3
12	Spend some time with my pet	26.7
13	Go to work earlier than usual	19.1
14	Look at my child’s face	16.7
15	Bend family member’s, friend’s ear	15.1
16	Look at my horoscope	15.1
17	Change my hairstyle	14.3
18	Drink a sports drink	13.5
19	Listen to my boy/girlfriend’s voice	12.7
20	Have my favourite breakfast, have a posher breakfast than usual	12.4