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Have you ever sat down and itemized the time you spend on the web doing non-work related tasks? You know, things like forwarding jokes via email, updating your Facebook profile, catching up on forum threads, and everything else that's non-conducive to your job. According to a new study, you may be far more unproductive on any given work day than you might have imagined, and collectively, dilly-dallying on the web is costing the economy around $900 billion each year. Yowzers!
Preposterous? Not to Basex, a New York-based research company who has been focusing its efforts on analyzing what it calls "information overload." In its ongoing study, Basex says the average worker loses 28 percent of his time to interruptions, while information workers spend 15 percent of the day searching. All tallied, only 25 percent of the workday is spent on "productive content creation," or in other words, actual work. Technophiles aren't immune to wandering aimlessly on the web, either.
"We recognize that as younger workers come into the workforce, they are more handy with technologies, they're more comfortable using them," Basex CEO Joseph Spira says, "but that doesn't mean they use them any more intelligently."
Hey, that reminds us - stop whatever work you're doing and go sign up for Will Smith's Twitter feed for your chance at winning some cool swag.
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nekollx
December 31, 2008 at 9:59am
how do they classify this stuff as non work related?
My troling mof max pc here has be very productive.
Ive found new servers for the office (hammer drive review)
critical virus undates (the non patch tuesday hot fix which prompted me to take a day to make sure every computer in the office was instaling updates [ most we're and were back loged])
Snag a free anti virus promo from Zone alarm for the office
and confirm that our new ESAT suite was indeed best of the best.
And thanks to the no BS podcast i found DriverMax (inovative-sol.com) which got all our 4 year old drivers up to date and the 25 tweaks article spedd up every computer 10-25 percent and located a crital bug on one where the Administrator was broken and Geek Squad had to come in and fix that computer.
All thanks to a little time waster called MaximumPC.com
