Small Business News: Drama In the Workplace?

Do you ever feel like your work environment could be a popular sitcom? Or perhaps you harbor fantasies of taking your real-life experiences and creating a screenplay for the masses? Sometimes the movies hit close to home, and just to brighten up your day, here are some interesting results from a resent survey that ties in the drama with reality.

According to a new CareerBuilder.com survey conducted by Harris Interactive^®, drama is alive and kicking in the workplace. Thirty-two percent of U.S. workers say drama is the type of movie genre that best describes their workplace, followed by comedy at 28 percent and adventure at 11 percent. The good news for employers is only 6 percent of the workers surveyed say their workplace could be best described as a horror or a war movie.

The survey titled, “Scenes from the Office,” was conducted from November 13 to December 3, 2007 and included 6,704 workers. When asked which former female Academy Award winner they would most like to work for, workers revealed the following as their top ten:

10. Gwyneth Paltrow
9. Hillary Swank
8. Helen Mirren
7. Nicole Kidman
6. Charlize Theron
5. Susan Sarandon
4. Helen Hunt
3. Reese Witherspoon
2. Jodie Foster
1. Julia Roberts

The following are the top ten former male Academy Award winners workers say they would most like to work for:

10. Anthony Hopkins
9. Robert DeNiro
8. Jamie Foxx
7. Jack Nicholson
6. Robert Redford
5. Stephen Spielberg
4. Denzel Washington
3. Clint Eastwood
2. John Wayne
1. Tom Hanks