From Yahoo! Finance comes this article - How Loud is too Loud?  As you might guess, the loud phone talker topped the survey as the most annoying office habit.  Being an auditory person, I can agree with that one.  I’m always telling the Rock Star to use his indoor voice since his voice carries a country mile.

Despite the laundry list of complaints, the loud talker wins the award for most annoying. Of 2,318 people surveyed in March 2006 by Harris Interactive and Randstad, 32% say an office loud talker is their biggest pet peeve. Coming in a close second at 30% is using an annoying cellphone ringtone; 22% said speakerphones are their No. 1 peeve.

I worked in a cube farm early in my career and was a neighbor to a speakerphone talker.  I would have voted that as the most annoying habit.  This guy would talk to prospects and customers with a speakerphone that would clip both sides of the discussion (not a full duplex speakerphone).  I was amazed that he sold anything at all.

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