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Workers waste time, survey says
By Larry Hendrick | July 12, 2005
What?
The last time I saw a study, it showed we were working harder and longer. If we are working 60-70 hours each week, how can we be wasting 10 hours a week. This is one survey I would really like to see the questions and how they were answered. (This is a story from the Houston Chronicle which does require a free registration, but I am sure you can find the story elsewhere.)
HoustonChronicle.com - Workers waste time, survey says
U.S. workers admit to wasting more than two hours each day at work surfing the Internet, chatting with co-workers, running errands or making personal calls, according to a survey by America Online and Salary.com.
The 2.09 hours that workers estimate they waste each day is twice what employers expect, the survey said. That time costs employers about $759 billion a year in unproductive salaries.
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