Different generations get irked by different workplace behaviours


At work, we often have little choice but to put up with everyone’s little quirks. But a recent survey reveals that we don’t all get irritated by the same kinds of annoying behaviour.
Some people, for example, get annoyed when someone cuts them off in a meeting, while others just ignore it. It’s no doubt a question of sensitivity, but it may also be generational.
According to a survey by cloud-hosting platform Meeting Canary, workers of different ages get annoyed by different things at work. Baby boomers, for example, take particular offence at the patronising attitudes of their colleagues: 74% find this unbearable, compared with 63% of Generation Z.
Similarly, 84% of boomers can’t stand meetings that drag on unnecessarily. Their patience is sorely tested when they have to listen to their colleagues’ long-winded monologues (76%), something that doesn’t seem to bother Gen Z-ers nearly as much.
But the generation gap is most pronounced when it comes to professional jargon: the most experienced employees loathe the technical terms and trendy buzzwords that are used incessantly in the workplace. In fact, 70% of boomers find this corporate jargon irritating, compared with 44% of Gen Z.
Perhaps it’s because this professional jargon excludes the uninitiated, to the detriment of team cohesion.
Generally speaking, baby boomers place great importance on politeness in the workplace, taking a dim view of any behaviour that goes against the elementary rules of good manners. For example, they are irked by colleagues who fail to arrive at the office on time.
Their younger counterparts, on the other hand, are much more forgiving: 40% of millennials say they have no trouble forgiving someone running 10 minutes late, while 70% of boomers have a zero-tolerance attitude towards any kind of tardiness.
Nevertheless, it would be wrong to say there is a real generational divide between young and old. Case in point: whatever their age, employees find respect and civility in the workplace to be highly important, which is why one should make every effort to mind one’s manners at the office.
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