Filed under: Internet, Productivity
Survey: Americans spend 20% of their work time slacking off
Salary.com put out a study saying that most of you don't deserve the salary you're being paid. OK, that's not what it says, but it does suggest that the average worker wastes 1.7 hours out of an 8.5 hour day. What qualifies as waste? Chatting with coworkers, doing personal business during work hours, and oh yeah, personal internet surfing tops the list with 34 percent of survey respondents saying they spend time online performing activities that have nothing to do with their jobs.
Our favorite stats from the survey are the list of reasons people gave for slacking off:
- 18 percent said they were bored and/or had nothing to do
- 13.9 percent said their work hours were too long
- 11.8 percent said they were underpaid
- 11.1 percent said their work wasn't challenging enough
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They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
