If you are consistently late for work, you may not be very popular with half of your workmates

The employee punctuality study by Jobs.ie also found that the most common excuses for being late include traffic (59%), oversleeping (33%) and the weather (26%).

A new survey has found 46% of workers feel resentful of a colleague who is consistently late for work.

And 50% of respondents in senior management positions said that colleagues arriving late for work creates workplace animosity.