{"id":191,"date":"2006-07-26T15:07:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T20:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=191"},"modified":"2006-07-26T15:08:22","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T20:08:22","slug":"biggest-employee-time-wasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/biggest-employee-time-wasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Employee Time Wasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salary.com has a great article called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salary.com\/careers\/layoutscripts\/crel_display.asp?tab=cre&#038;cat=nocat&#038;ser=Ser414&#038;part=Par632\" target=\"_blank\">Wasted Time At Work Still Costing Companies Billions in 2006<\/a>. From the opening paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the average worker admits to squandering <strong>1.86 hours per 8-hour workday<\/strong>, not including lunch and scheduled break-time<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amazing, but it gets better:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The biggest distraction for respondents was personal Internet use. <strong>52.0%<\/strong> of the 2,700 people polled cited web surfing as their #1 distraction at work. Socializing with co-workers came in second at 26.3%. Conducting personal business, &#8220;spacing out,&#8221; running errands, and making personal phone calls were the other popular time-wasting activities in the workplace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I particularly enjoyed the &#8220;spacing out&#8221; time waster. It came in at 6.6%.<\/p>\n<p>The sum of all this wasted time . . . <em>$544 billion<\/em> (yes, with a &#8220;b&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salary.com has a great article called Wasted Time At Work Still Costing Companies Billions in 2006. From the opening paragraph: the average worker admits to squandering 1.86 hours per 8-hour workday, not including lunch and scheduled break-time Amazing, but it gets better: The biggest distraction for respondents was personal Internet use. 52.0% of the 2,700 people polled cited web surfing as their #1 distraction at work. Socializing with co-workers came in second at 26.3%. Conducting personal business, &#8220;spacing out,&#8221; running errands, and making personal phone calls were the other popular time-wasting activities in the workplace. I particularly enjoyed the &#8220;spacing out&#8221; time waster. It came in at 6.6%. The sum&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/biggest-employee-time-wasters\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-35","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":248,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/the-6-hour-workday\/","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":0},"title":"The 6 Hour Workday","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Price Tag for Lost Productivity: $544 Billion. 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