Vox Populi: How Portlanders Work (Extended Results)
Extended Results:
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It is very important to keep your personal and professional lives separate. |
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True |
62.9% |
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False |
37.1% |
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Do you hang out with your coworkers socially? |
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Sure, we're all friends. |
15.9% |
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Sometimes. |
62.9% |
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Only if I really have to. |
16.7% |
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Ugh. Never. |
4.6% |
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My job compensates me fairly. |
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True |
66.1% |
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False |
33.9% |
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Could you be making more money doing what you're doing now if you lived in a different city? |
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Yes |
68.8% |
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No |
31.2% |
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Does your job relate to what you studied in school? |
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Yes |
56.7% |
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No |
43.3% |
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How long (in hours) do you typically work in a day? |
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Average |
9.5 |
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Median |
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8.0 |
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Choose the option that best describes your typical state at work: |
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Well-rested and energetic |
28.6% |
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After coffee, I'm good. |
52.8% |
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Exhausted. Drained. Overworked. |
18.6% |
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Do Americans in general work too much? |
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Yes |
80.4% |
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No |
19.6% |
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How much time do you spend on social media during the day? (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, etc.) |
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A ton. If my boss only knew. |
2.8% |
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Uh, probably more than I should. |
36.9% |
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Only during lunch or on break. |
40.1% |
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None. |
20.2% |
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How much paid vacation time does your job give you? |
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None |
18.3% |
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1 week |
3.3% |
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2 weeks |
23.6% |
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3 weeks |
23.5% |
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4 weeks |
17.4% |
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5+ weeks |
13.9% |
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Do you ever feel guilty about using your vacation time? |
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Yes |
29.3% |
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No |
70.7% |
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What percentage of a typical day is taken up by meetings? |
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0% |
17.5% |
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10% |
34.2% |
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20% |
19.4% |
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30% |
13.1% |
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40% |
5.8% |
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50% |
4.9% |
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60% |
2.2% |
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70% |
1.9% |
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80% |
0.6% |
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90% |
0.2% |
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100% |
0.1% |
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In general, how would you describe your office meetings? |
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Productive and efficient |
12.9% |
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Mostly productive, with some unnecessary discussions |
65.0% |
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Completely unproductive |
13.4% |
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Please kill me now. |
8.7% |
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What's your biggest office pet peeve? |
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Red tape |
48.5% |
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Dirty dishes/trash in the common area |
16.7% |
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Chipper coworkers (especially before 10am) |
3.0% |
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Meetings |
14.2% |
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Chit chat |
13.8% |
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Coffee breath |
3.8% |
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My work space is... |
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A private office with windows! |
24.5% |
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A private office but, alas, no windows. |
7.5% |
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A shared or open office |
38.7% |
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A cubicle |
22.3% |
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My couch |
7.1% |
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On a scale from 1 to 10, rate the quality of the coffee in your office. |
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1 - Disgusting |
13.2% |
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2 |
4.2% |
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3 |
6.3% |
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4 |
3.8% |
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5 - Not great, but drinkable |
24.7% |
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6 |
10.2% |
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7 |
12.1% |
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8 |
8.8% |
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9 - On par with Stumptown |
13.9% |
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10 - Better than anything you can buy. |
2.8% |
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How often do you work hungover? |
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Daily |
0.4% |
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Weekly |
6.2% |
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Once or twice a month |
14.8% |
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Once or twice a year |
34.4% |
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Never! |
44.3% |
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Have you ever called in sick when you're not really sick? |
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Yes |
57.3% |
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No |
42.7% |
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Describe your most embarrassing office experience.
My wife's bra stuck to the back of my wool sweater and I didn't notice until my coworker quietly told me.
Tore what I thought was a small whole in the rear of my pants at lunch. The entire office, however, let me know upon return that the tear was actually the size of my entire ass cheek. I had to crudely sew it back together, and walk very gingerly for the rest of the day.
Complaining about my new boss, really...really complaining about my new boss. The entire time he was walking behind me. He actually called me into his office later that day, and instead of screaming at me, asked me some very insightful questions. That was the moment I started kind of liking him.
I couldn't decide if a pair of pants was right for me. Before cutting off the tags, I decided to have my office bestie gals check them out. After all, I was wearing a dress. I could pop them on under the dress when everyone was gone and badda bing-the vote would be cast. What I didn't expect was that the four males in our office (that were out at the time of the pants viewing) would return at the exact moment I decided to take OFF the pants (the pants were voted 'in' by the way). Imagine me with my pants half way down-and struggling to get to my chair so I could casually pull them the rest of the way off under my desk! All the while I was chatting away with co workers like nothing was happening. They were all laughing so hard. The male co workers never knew that I was performing a strip tease right then and there.
Just as a joke, I entered sweepstakes: "free Valentine chocolate for your lonely boss." I didn't have any special feeling to my boss, so this is totally joke and I've never expected winning, but I won! They brought a huge box filled with all kinds of chocolate (approx. 30 boxes of chocolate) to my office with TV camera without any notice! The security guard stopped the TV crew and the director of my division got angry for the mess I caused, but only my "lonely" boss was very happy.
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