Poll: Workers kill 1.86 hours a day
A new survey by Salary.com and America Online found the average U.S. worker fritters away 1.86 hours per 8-hour workday — not including lunch and scheduled breaks. That’s actually an improvement from last year’s inaugural Salary.com/AOL survey, which showed workers squandered 2.09 hours a day. I hope 5 minutes of that time on the internet is here on LR!
This year’s biggest time-killer was personal use of the Internet. Of the 2,700 people quizzed in the unscientific survey, 52 percent said they wasted more time online than any other way. (The survey, by the way, was conducted online, and some responded: “I waste my time filling out surveys like this.”) Other top time-wasters included: socializing with co-workers, running errands and spacing out. “Staring blankly at the computer screen remains to be quite a popular choice,” the study concluded.
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