How do these findings compare to your office?
A recent study of 2,000 office workers and managers in the UK has returned some fairly interesting results.
The research, carried out by the Anglia Ruskin University in collaboration with Totaljobs, aimed to find what aspects of our daily 9-to-5's caused us to be 'emotionally triggered'. Described as The Big Six, researchers found that the work environment either brings people joy, surprise, anger, sadness, disgust or fear - not overly surprising.
Stats also indicated that men are more emotional in the workplace than women, but also that women are more likely to experience stress and frustration whilst on the job, according to the Mirror.
Men tend to be more emotionally invested in their projects than women and experience negative feelings if they’ve missed a deadline or go over-budget. Men were also found to be twice as likely as women to take criticism to heart or get upset if they feel their ideas are being ignored, with 43 percent resorting to shouting in a bid to blow off steam.
While men are also more likely to take drastic action fueled by emotion, being 20 percent more likely to quit a job when times are tough than women.
Dr Terri Simpkin from Anglia Ruskin University, told The Mirror: "Men are more likely to report experiencing emotions associated with power, such as anger or pride. In fact, emotions and power are inextricably linked.
"Not being heard is congruent with lacking in status. Similarly, sadness is associated with a lack of power in social settings such as the workplace."
The data also says that one in three of us hide our true emotions at work and instead opt to put on a happy face instead of confronting our negative emotions.
Dr Simpkin added: ''Workplaces are environments of social expectations. There are ‘display rules’ associated with when, where and how much emotion can be shared and by whom.
''This is one reason why people will suppress their emotions in the workplace: they fear being judged.''
