Work colleagues who spend their day gossiping, organizing their home lives or who press "reply all" on e-mails are among the biggest nuisances in the office, according to a survey released on Monday.  This such wasted use of work time and nothing to improve bottom line dollars for any business.

A poll on the biggest pet peeves in the workplace by market researcher Harris Interactive found 60% of 2,429 U.S. respondents listed gossip as the biggest annoyance.

The online survey, conducted for staffing firm Randstad USA, found the second biggest peeve at 54% was poor time management which included people making personal phones calls at work or surfing the Internet during work time.

Messiness in communal spaces, such as unwashed dishes in the kitchen sinks, irked 45% of respondent while potent smells like perfume, food, or smoke, came in fourth in the list with 42%.

Rounding out the list of seven office peeves came loud noises such as speaker phones, loud talking and loud phone ring tones at 41%, overuse of electronic personal communications devices in meetings at 28% and misuse of e-mail at 22%.

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