Thursday, April 17, 2008

Your Workday: Just 3 Hours, 50 Minutes

A survey of office workers in the United Kingdom revealed that the average amount of time they actually spent working each day is 3 hours, 50 minutes. And what about the rest of the time? According to this study, these were the top five distractions at work:

1. Reading and responding to unnecessary e-mails
2. Surfing the internet for non-work related means
3. Idle office gossip
4. Malfunctioning computers
5. Answering pointless internal phone calls

Read more here.