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This is definately an eye-opener! :shock:

Mind your workplace manners -- it pays

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Manners maketh the businessman, with a global survey finding Americans and Britons to be the most easily insulted by lack of workplace etiquette, while Australians are among the most offensive.

The survey, by Australian-based international office space provider Servcorp, listed the top five most offensive workplace behaviors as not saying hello or good morning, not offering office guests a beverage, speaking loudly across the room, using swear words and taking calls on mobile phones.

The use of stationery without permission and asking colleagues about their personal lives were also deemed insulting.

The poll then revealed the United States and Britain to be the most sensitive nations in the world, despite 60 percent of respondents believing Japan has the strictest work etiquette.

English and American businessmen were also more easily offended than their colleagues in the Middle East, Japan and China, nations with cultural traditions spanning centuries.

Almost 25 percent of Australians, however, thought it was perfectly acceptable to swear -- something the majority of Japanese and Middle Easterners found deeply offensive.

Nearly all Australians polled also said they would not think twice about addressing their boss by their first name, something Chinese business people found very rude.

Australians also regularly talk loudly at work, take personal calls and ask too many personal questions, the survey showed.

"Being aware of potentially offensive behavior is a key factor to Australian business success abroad," Taine Moufarrige, Servcorp's executive director, said in a statement.

"Australians are very natural in their business style, perhaps more so than any other country in the world," she said, adding that the survey, which was sent to some 700 businesspeople in 13 countries, was commissioned to help Australians.

The survey found that although they are not easily offended, Australians were more ticked off than their international colleagues by business people who don't buy drinks and who don't offer guests beverages
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Mind your workplace manners -- it pays - Yahoo! News
 
My experience in Australia in winter 2001 - I was introduced to my friend's Aussie co-workers in Australia. They were too friendly and too trust people easily. We do if we know each other well... I didn't noticed their behavior manner... :dunno:

Guess what, my family & I were offered to stay my friend's neighbor company (few companies near my friend's husband's company) to look after their dog and house due their month vacation to South Africa. I was like :eek3: because they didn't know me or not even meet us (me, my hubby & boys) in person. They only offered us to stay to watch their dog and take care of their house because they know my friend. One of my friend's friendly co-workers lend us their car then we don't need to rent the car for our month vacation...

To my opinion, I would say that Aussies are too easily trust to people they didn't know... and too friendly which is total different than I read the article here.

What do you think, Jake?
 
I find Australians to be the best chess players online, and I have yet to meet an overly rude one. :)
 
Hey mate, we just can't help being friendly. Didn't you guys watch Crocodile Dundee? :giggle:

I admit I can be overfriendly and happy to meet people, always say hello to everyone even strangers in the street.

Oh and um.. swearing... that's just Aussie tradition lol
 
romany said:
Hey mate, we just can't help being friendly. Didn't you guys watch Crocodile Dundee? :giggle:

I admit I can be overfriendly and happy to meet people, always say hello to everyone even strangers in the street.

Oh and um.. swearing... that's just Aussie tradition lol
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Why?
 
Liebling:-))) said:
My experience in Australia in winter 2001 - I was introduced to my friend's Aussie co-workers in Australia. They were too friendly and too trust people easily. We do if we know each other well... I didn't noticed their behavior manner... :dunno:

Guess what, my family & I were offered to stay my friend's neighbor company (few companies near my friend's husband's company) to look after their dog and house due their month vacation to South Africa. I was like :eek3: because they didn't know me or not even meet us (me, my hubby & boys) in person. They only offered us to stay to watch their dog and take care of their house because they know my friend. One of my friend's friendly co-workers lend us their car then we don't need to rent the car for our month vacation...

To my opinion, I would say that Aussies are too easily trust to people they didn't know... and too friendly which is total different than I read the article here.

What do you think, Jake?
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Damn right, our country is very friendly - we welcome with open arms, but for the people who doesn't know manners are rude. That's all.

Romany,Dundee trilogy film is a must! ;)
 
Jake is the only Australian I know, and I always like his friendly manners and think he is one of the nicest people here.

Maybe the study just did not understand the Australian style.
 
I am well known australian on this forum, but there is few aussies here such as romany (the newbie), miss delectable (hardly online but always delivers the deaf news) and other small aussies, who doesn't come around much or hardly
 
JClarke said:
I am well known australian on this forum, but there is few aussies here such as romany (the newbie), miss delectable (hardly online but always delivers the deaf news) and other small aussies, who doesn't come around much or hardly
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Sorry, Miss Delectable, I thought she was New Zealand for some reason.
 
Haha, no - she's from Melbourne.

SG is pure kiwi, but she's located in australia now.
 
JClarke said:
I am well known australian on this forum, but there is few aussies here such as romany (the newbie), miss delectable (hardly online but always delivers the deaf news) and other small aussies, who doesn't come around much or hardly
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**COUGH** Am I a small aussies? huh? Thanks a lot! :roll:
 
That article just makes the Aussies sound relaxed and friendly to me.

In America an awful lot of people spend most of their time just looking for something to be insulted over. We are the bastion of freedom where free speech reigns and you have the right to say anything you want so long as it is in a whisper behind closed doors where no one can hear who does not agree with you.


Aussies though don't have those civil guarantees -- So they can say, or sign, pretty much anything they want to.


I'm sure a lot of Americans would like that stopped so the Aussies can enjoy the same freedoms as we do.
 
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