Wasting time at work?You must be 'bored' or 'Underpaid'?
By rekhum
@rekhum (2420)
India
July 30, 2007 7:44pm CST
Many must have read the article posted on yahoo.com day before yesterday.'Wasting time at work? You're not alone.'.
Quite surprising! But if you are at it,fret not,for you're not alone,literally.
An online survey of 2,057 employees by online compensation company Salary.com found about six in every 10 workers admit to wasting time at work with the average employee wasting 1.7 hours of a typical 8.5 hour working day.
What a waste!
Americans who feel bored and underpaid do work very hard,they'd mentioned--- at surfing the Internet and catching up on gossip,and they'd found U.S. workers waste about 20 percent of their working day.
How they waste?34 percent of respondents waste time on Personal Internet use, topping the list as the leading time-wasting activity.
20.3 percent waste in socializing with co-workers.
17 percent in conducting personal business.
Must be for reasons?The reasons why people wasted time were varied with nearly 18 percent of respondents questioned by e-mail in June and July said "boredom and not having enough to do" was the main reason.
The second most popular reason for wasting time was having too long hours (13.9 percent), being underpaid (11.8 percent), and a lack of challenging work (11.1 percent).
Are you also in the gang?Nope really.Not any among mylotters.At mylot we don't waste time.We participate in sensible discussions.Mylot is a knowledge bank so i don't think mylotting at a break time isn't quite wasting?What say?
1 response
@andyliuzn (1029)
• Guangzhou, China
26 Aug 07
For me, I hope I got some time to waste here.
For me, it is totally the different, I've quite a lot of work to do in this office, a lot of phone calls, many emails, plenty of orders....
Things are never less, it is quite challenging a job and I don't even have the time to chat with my neighbour here...
Good luck,Andy



