{"id":248,"date":"2006-08-22T07:47:06","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T12:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=248"},"modified":"2006-08-22T07:47:51","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T12:47:51","slug":"the-6-hour-workday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/the-6-hour-workday\/","title":{"rendered":"The 6 Hour Workday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/inc\/headlines\/~3\/15298669\/time.html\" target=\"_blank\">Price Tag for Lost Productivity: $544 Billion<\/a>. I&#8217;m always intrigued about how these calculations are made through a simple survey.<\/p>\n<p>How about some stats from the article?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Employees spend an average of <strong>1.86 hours<\/strong> per eight-hour workday on something other than their jobs, not including lunch and scheduled breaks, the survey found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>More than half (52%) of the 2,706 people surveyed admitted that their biggest distraction during work hours is surfing the Internet for personal use. Other distractions cited by respondents included socializing with co-workers (26.3%), running errands outside the office (7.6%) and spacing out (6.6%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember seeing something about this survey since &#8220;spacing out&#8221; made me laugh. I&#8217;ve been on some phone screens where I seriously wondered if the person on the other end was spacing out as they talked. But that is an anecdote for another day.<\/p>\n<p>One last finding that is certainly worth noting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 2005 survey also found that older employees wasted less time at work than their younger counterparts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Price Tag for Lost Productivity: $544 Billion. I&#8217;m always intrigued about how these calculations are made through a simple survey. How about some stats from the article? Employees spend an average of 1.86 hours per eight-hour workday on something other than their jobs, not including lunch and scheduled breaks, the survey found. More than half (52%) of the 2,706 people surveyed admitted that their biggest distraction during work hours is surfing the Internet for personal use. Other distractions cited by respondents included socializing with co-workers (26.3%), running errands outside the office (7.6%) and spacing out (6.6%). I remember seeing something about this survey since &#8220;spacing out&#8221; made me laugh. I&#8217;ve&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/the-6-hour-workday\/\">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":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales-management","category-team-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-40","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":191,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/biggest-employee-time-wasters\/","url_meta":{"origin":248,"position":0},"title":"Biggest Employee Time Wasters","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"July 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Team Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Team Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/team-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1642,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/gas-prices-leading-to-a-sea-change\/","url_meta":{"origin":248,"position":1},"title":"Gas Prices Leading To A Sea Change","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"July 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"According to a Workforce Management article the buzz at the SHRM conference\u00a0inolved\u00a0rising gas prices and the wide-ranging effects it is having.\u00a0 In fact, the conference\u2019s opening press event highlighted its recent poll showing how companies are trying to\u00a0assist their workers.\u00a0 The two most noted solutions were flexible schedules and telecommuting.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Economy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Economy","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/economy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":294,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/employee-satisfaction\/","url_meta":{"origin":248,"position":2},"title":"Employee Satisfaction","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"September 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I always seem to get drawn into articles with lots of stats in them. 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I think you will find the format quite clever: Every year, our organization conducts a customer service survey by sending the following one-sentence e-mail to our list\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/windowslivewriter1230805a3e35-8f18keyboard.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1469,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/satisfied-salespeople\/","url_meta":{"origin":248,"position":4},"title":"Satisfied Salespeople","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Clayton Shold over at Saleopedia offers up some stunning survey results from a recent SalesDog.com survey.\u00a0 Check this out (my emphasis): Despite the job pressure, 70 percent of respondents reported being happy with their management, while 64 percent of those taking the survey said they felt adequately recognized for their\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sales Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sales Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/sales-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":367,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/the-select-metrix-survey-says\/","url_meta":{"origin":248,"position":5},"title":"The Select Metrix Survey Says&#8230;","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"October 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Ok, there isn't a Select Metrix survey and Richard Dawson isn't screaming \"survey says\" anymore. 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