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[The Faceless Master]

Traipsing around the Internet is the most popular form of loafing on the job. The insurance industry is particularly rife with goofing off, and Missouri is the top state for time-wasters.

Those are among the conclusions of a study on wasted time at work released Monday by compensation specialist Salary.com and Web portal America Online. Through a Web survey involving more than 10,000 employees, the report found that personal Internet surfing ranked as the top method of cooling one's heels at work. It was cited by 44.7 percent of respondents as their primary time-wasting activity, followed by socializing with co-workers (23.4 percent) and conducting personal business (6.8 percent).

The average worker admits to frittering away 2.09 hours per day, not counting lunch, according to the report. That's far more time than the roughly one hour per day employers expect the average employee to waste, the report said. The extra unproductive time adds up to $759 billion annually in salaries for which companies get no apparent benefit, the report said.

Source: c|net News.com

damn, i need a cushy job where i can blow 2.09 hours or more on the internet

 

[Wraith]

Thanks to this internship where the company was utterly unprepared to have me, I have at least 2 hours a day to kill on the Internet. I don't know how many Americans actually browse the Internet when they should be working; when I actually have work to do, I don't look at the 'net at all. From the admittedly few corporate places that I've been employed, it really appears that net browsing is generally due to downtime in the workday.

Besides, we have to get back at those smoking bastards and their constant 15 minute breaks somehow!

 

[cubanb]

http://forums.gaming-age.com/showthread.php?t=55027&highlight=internet


I love the internet at work!!!!!!!