TABLE 4.

Participants’ workplace characteristics.

Characteristic	Whole sample (n = 988)†	Misophonia (n = 489)	General Population (n = 499)
Number of other people who usually share workplace
None – I usually work alone	330 (33.2%)	153 (31.2%)	177 (35.2%)
1–5	408 (41.0%)	200 (40.7%)	208 (41.4%)
6–10	90 (9.1%)	45 (9.2%)	45 (8.9%)
11–20	70 (7.0%)	38 (7.7%)	32 (6.4%)
21–50	49 (4.9%)	30 (6.1%)	19 (3.8%)
50+	41 (4.1%)	23 (4.7%)	18 (3.6%)
Current usual working environment
At home	517 (52.0%)	231 (47.0%)	286 (56.9%)
In a private office at a workplace	61 (6.1%)	29 (5.9%)	32 (6.4%)
In a shared office at a workplace	62 (6.2%)	39 (7.9%)	23 (4.6%)
In an open-place office at a workplace	67 (6.7%)	45 (9.2%)	22 (4.4%)
In a retail outlet	19 (1.9%)	9 (1.8%)	10 (2.0%)
In a café, restaurant or similar environment	12 (1.2%)	7 (1.4%)	5 (1.0%)
In a leisure environment, such as a sports center, bowling alley or similar	4 (0.4%)	2 (0.4%)	2 (0.4%)
In an environment such as a museum, library or similar	2 (0.2%)	2 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)
In a school or other teaching environment	69 (6.9%)	40 (8.1%)	29 (5.8%)
In health or social care provision	70 (7.0%)	31 (6.3%)	39 (7.8%)
In an emergency services role	3 (0.3%)	1 (0.2%)	3 (0.6%)
In a factory or manufacturing plant	8 (0.8%)	4 (0.8%)	7 (1.4%)
In a motor vehicle (e.g., taxi driver, truck driver, delivery driver, refuse collector)	4 (0.4%)	4 (0.8%)	0 (0.0%)
In natural outdoor environments, such as forests, beaches, gardens, golf courses, farmland	14 (1.4%)	7 (1.4%)	7 (1.4%)
In urban outdoor environments, such as construction sites, road maintenance	6 (0.6%)	2 (0.4%)	4 (0.8%)
Other (please describe)	34 (3.4%)	21 (4.3%)	12 (2.6%)
Retired*	26 (2.6%)	11 (2.2%)	15 (3.0%)
Unemployed*	10 (1.0%)	8 (1.6%)	2 (0.4%)

*Retired and unemployed were not presented as options in the questionnaire, but participants who included this detail under other were re-categorized accordingly.

^†Six participants did not complete the workplace questions, so results reported in this section are for 988 participants.