Top time-wasting activities:
Surfing internet (personal use)
Socializing with co-workers
Running errands off premises
Personal phone calls
Spacing out
Arriving late
Applying for other jobs
Source: Salary.com, America Online survey
Posted on 08/09/2006 12:34:14 PM PDT by Cagey
Top time-wasting activities:
Surfing internet (personal use)
Socializing with co-workers
Running errands off premises
Personal phone calls
Spacing out
Arriving late
Applying for other jobs
Source: Salary.com, America Online survey
Working four to six hours a day is the key to happiness, according to a new report. Sydney University academic Dr Caroline West says while work delivers self-esteem, income and social ties, more than four to six hours a day will bring anxiety, exhaustion and a poor quality of life. Dr West's research shows most people would rather work longer hours and have more money than have extra leisure and family time. She said people who don't have money and who don't value work as their number one priority often risked being ostracised, or dubbed as lazy. "It's difficult to be someone who places priority on leisure if you're surrounded by people who just care about money, or care about it more than other things," Dr West said.
"That sounds a bit inflated to me...."
What is Captain Lewis Nixon doing in that office?
I don't see the problem. It seems productivity is doing just fine. If you keep your hand on the back of someone's head and force their nose to the grindstone every day of the year, I'd suspect they will burn out rather quickly, and then you have training costs for your next wage slave.
Wow! I'm ahead of the average!........
The real trick is to bill while slacking, then to punitively bill if you're questioned about slacking....
I plead guilty to a couple. Oh okay, a few.
Some people I work with average 1.86 hours of WORK per day.
They left off FReeping!............
Some people I work with I believe are secretly working for our competitors.........
"I wouldn't exactly say I've been missing it, Bob."
I THINK SALARY.COM COPIED A LIST OF MY JOB DESCRIPTION.
Surfing internet (personal use)
Socializing with co-workers
Running errands off premises
Personal phone calls
Spacing out
Arriving late
Applying for other jobs
"We pretend to work. They pretend to pay us." -- old Soviet joke
Only 1.86 hours? What a bunch of slackers.
This is a rather interesting study, given the fact that the productivity of American workers is at a record high. If both things are true, then a case can be made that the freedom to goof off for a reasonable time each day in the office is conducive to higher profitability. ;-)
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