Average worker wastes 2 hours per day
The average employee wastes about 20 percent of the workday.
The 2007 Wasting Time Survey by Salary.com, which asked 2,000 employees across all job levels about how they spend their working hours, found employees waste an average of 1.7 hours of an 8.5-hour workday. This represents a decline from last year, when workers reported wasting an average of 1.89 hours each day.
Reasons given for wasting time point to that differing standard. While 13.9 percent said they slack off because their hours are too long, large segments also reported that they don’t have enough work to do (17.7 percent) or their work isn’t challenging enough (11.1 percent).
The top time-wasting activities included using the Internet for non-work related purposes, socializing with co-workers, and conducting personal business.
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