{"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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-40","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->