{"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":"https:\/\/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=\"https:\/\/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_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":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-35","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"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! -->