世論 What Japan Thinks

With the temperature hovering around 35 degrees Celcius outside, and Cool Biz meaning that it’s about 28 degrees Celcius inside the typical office, tempers are bound to be frayed, so this survey from goo Ranking looked at what aspects of their co-workers annoyed people in the office in summer.

Demographics

Over the 8th and 9th of June 2012 1,092 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.1% of the sample were female, 10.8% in their teens, 15.8% in their twenties, 28.9% in their thirties, 26.3% in their forties, 10.2% in their fifties, and 8.0% 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.

I’m probably guilty of causing the first (or more correctly number 16), as I have some scented underarm deodorant in the office, so I’m sure my colleagues at least notice it! I also do tend to get a bit shivery when the air conditioner is over-strong. Number 10 annoys me, although the one person who excessively faps his fan at least does work.

Ranking results

Q: What aspect of your co-workers gets you irritated in the office in summer? (Sample size=1,092)

Rank		Score
1	Their strong smell of perfume	100
2	Them fiddling about with the cooler settings	99.3
3	Their smelly feet from taking off their shoes at their desk	90.0
4	Their smell of stale sweat from their commute	90.0
5	Them saying nothing but “It’s hot!” all the time	80.1
6	Them coming to work with an obvious air of having not had a bath the night before	72.3
7	Them having partied too much the night before and sleeping at their desk	68.7
8	Them saying “It’s ecological!”, “It’s saving electricity!” and not turning on the air conditioner	62.1
9	Them getting too touchy-feely even though it’s hot	60.1
10	Them fanning themselves all the time and not doing any work	55.4
11	Them going into holiday mode and slacking off	55.0
12	Them dunking their hair in water, and working as their hair naturally dries	53.6
13	Them coming to work in beach sandals	52.5
14	Them coming to work in clothes showing too much skin	51.7
15	Them coming to work in clothes not designed for the hot weather	41.0
16	Their strong smell of deodorant spray	40.1
17	Them opening the window whenever they feel like it	33.7
18	Them far too frequently saying “I could do with a beer!”	33.3
19	Them saying “I’m cold because the cooler’s too high” too often	32.4
20	Them being lethargic with heat	31.9
21	Them coming to work with dead eyes after their summer holiday	30.8
22	Them rubbing their arms, glaring at the air conditioner, etc, to wordlessly complain about the cold	27.5
23	Them unbuttoning their shirt and exposing their chest at the end of the work day	27.1
24	Them getting excessively over-exciting about it being summer	19.9
25	Them taking an early summer holiday, then coming to work with a deep tan	10.9