Average Employee Wastes Two Hours of Every Workday
Twentysomethings slack off more than older workers, according to a new survey.
From: Inc.com By: Liz Webber
The average employee wastes about 20 percent of the workday, with young people the most likely to be slacking off, according to a new survey.The 2007 Wasting Time Survey by Salary.com, which asked 2,000 employees across all job levels about how they spend their working hours, found employees waste an average of 1.7 hours of an 8.5-hour workday. This represents a decline from last year, when workers reported wasting an average of 1.89 hours each day.In this year’s survey, 20- to 29-year-olds said they waste an average of 2.1 hours per day. The amount of idle time drops off as employees grow older, with the 30-39 age group reporting 1.9 hours of the day wasted and 40- to 49-year-olds reporting 1.4 hours.”Older employees tend to have a very strong work ethic,” said Bill Coleman, Salary.com’s chief compensation officer. Coleman added that more seasoned workers understand certain humdrum office tasks, like all-day meetings, have value that may not be readily apparent.
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Corra realizes that the fact that so many workers waste away so much valuable working time is hardly news. The only thing you really need to do to pick up on this information is to walk around the work place. We all know about the now iconic water cooler, but let’s face it more employees are screwing around on the Internet than they are gabbing at the water cooler.
Maybe it is just the way things are and the fact that employees are working long hours, under great stress and with less job security has something to do with it. Besides, don’t most of us have something better to do than work? Just kidding. But that is the attitude in a good many places.
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