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
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