Pune: Almost an hour of office time is lost everyday in dealing with 'annoying' colleagues, say respondents of a survey conducted by TimesJobs.com about what hampers workplace productivity.According to the survey, cultural mismatch plagues almost 60% employees who feel intrusive coworkers interrupt their work and are the biggest drain on their performance and productivity. The survey was conducted by TimesJobs.com, a flagship business of Times Business Solutions, for which more than 1,400 working professionals were interviewed across the country to find out what coworker habits annoys them the most.Forty percent respondents of the survey stated colleagues who invade their private space are the most annoying. Besides, mid-level employees are the most irritating type, as expressed by 42% of those surveyed. Men are more annoying as colleagues as compared to women, the findings show."It is essential for optimum productivity that both companies and candidates evaluate each other not just based on the person-job fit, but equally on the person-culture fit," the survey report said.Nilanjan Roy, head of strategy of Times Business Solutions, said for candidates, fitting into the work culture of an organization is critical for success. "Candidates must review all aspects such as organizational culture, work-life balance and growth prospects that are critical to professional success with its extensive repository of company reviews and ratings. And employers too must hire attitude and train for skill," he said.40%: Invaders - Barge into one's private space and interrupt them30%: Eternal Cribbers - Complain about everything.24%: Social media pokers - React, comment and poke coworkers on social media22%: Chatterboxes - Talk a lot and loudly too60% blamed it on behaviour of coworkers for hampering their workplace productivity75% said coworkers tend to interrupt them for over an hour, taking a big toll on their official output52% feel male colleagues tend to annoy more than female coworkers62% male workers say male colleagues annoy the most (by poking on social media and being chatterboxes)56%: Female workers state female colleagues are the most annoying (by invading into coworkers' privacy and cribbing)42%: Feel middle-level employees are most annoying set of coworkers39%: Find senior-level employees most irritating19%: Believe junior-level employees are most irksome.35%: Keep conversations to the minimum30%: Avoid/ignore annoying coworkers25%: Be upfront and tell colleagues they are being annoying

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