世論 What Japan Thinks

It’s the start of the new financial year, which also means that it’s the mass intake of new recruits at the workplace, which further means that goo Ranking will conduct its annual look at what behaviour by new recruits do people want to warn them about.

Demographics

Over the 29th of February and the 1st of March 2012 1,175 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 61.4% of the sample were female, 10.0% in their teens, 16.5% in their twenties, 29.3% in their thirties, 24.1% in their forties, 10.6% in their fifties, and 9.5% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Ranking results

Q: What behaviour by new recruits do you want to warn them about? (Sample size=1,175)

Rank		Score
1	Taking days off without asking	100
2	Not greeting people	86.6
3	Being late	75.3
4	Taking too long on breaks	74.4
5	Facetious use of language	71.2
6	Always chewing gum	64.3
7	Not answering the phone	64.1
8	No doing work they don’t want to do until asked	58.6
9	Leaking company information	55.5
10	Being late, taking a day off after a work booze-up	54.7
11	Surfing to non work-related sites	53.4
12	Wearing clothes inappropriate for the TPO (Time, Place, Occasion)	52.4
13	Making excuses for their mistakes	51.3
14	Not turning their mobile phone off during meetings	50.6
15	Doing private stuff on their mobile phone during work	48.7
16	Not taking memos	48.2
17	Spending a lot of time on private chit-chat during work	47.2
18	Lack of personal grooming	46.5
19	Not using polite language correctly	46.0
20	Eating sweeties all the time	45.8
21	Snoozing at their desk	45.6
22	Taking a break during busy times	45.2
23	Using work items for personal purposes	42.2
24	Not putting their mobile into silent mode	39.0
25	Coming in to work just before the official start time	37.0
26	Having a messy desk	32.2
27	Half-baked back-channel feedback	30.6
28	Taking lots of Mondays off	29.6
29	Leaving documents scattered about their desk	27.0
30=	No manners regarding order of precedence	25.2
30=	Not being at their desk much	25.2