{"id":33,"date":"2006-05-17T19:59:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T00:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=33"},"modified":"2006-05-18T11:37:59","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T16:37:59","slug":"average-work-time-wasted-by-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/05\/average-work-time-wasted-by-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Average Work Time Wasted by State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not kidding.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salary.com\/careers\/layoutscripts\/crel_display.asp?tab=cre&#038;cat=nocat&#038;ser=Ser375&#038;part=Par556\" target=\"_blank\">Salary.com has a listing of time wasted at work<\/a> broken out by all 50 states.  I&#8217;m not sure what to make of it, but I did find this fact interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  4. Wisconsin  2.8 hrs avg wasted  salary wasted: $23.8 billion<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>33. Minnesota  1.9 hrs avg wasted  salary wasted: $11.8 billion<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will reserve comment since we have customers in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not kidding. Salary.com has a listing of time wasted at work broken out by all 50 states. I&#8217;m not sure what to make of it, but I did find this fact interesting: 4. Wisconsin 2.8 hrs avg wasted salary wasted: $23.8 billion 33. Minnesota 1.9 hrs avg wasted salary wasted: $11.8 billion I will reserve comment since we have customers in Wisconsin.<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":191,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/07\/biggest-employee-time-wasters\/","url_meta":{"origin":33,"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. 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