Socialising at Work
Most Employees waste almost two hours a day
Although most bosses assume the rank-and-file will take a small amount of down time every day, the “average” employee wastes about twice as much time as their employers think. Research shows many employees spend an average of 1.86 hours per eight-hour work day on something other than their jobs, not including lunch and scheduled breaks.
Just what does 1.86 hours a day workout to in terms of your overall payroll costs..?
The biggest distractions listed by people are typically
- Surfing the internet for personal use - 52%
- Socialising with colleagues on non-work topics - 26.3%
- Running personal errands whilst at work - 7.6%
- Spacing out work to fill the day - 6.6%
There may be some good news for employers in that time-wasting appears to be decreasing. In a similar survey conducted in 2005 on U.S. workers they admitted to squandering 2.09 hours per 8-hour workday and 33% of those polled said they wasted time at work because they don't have enough work to do..!While 23.4% wasted time because they felt underpaid...
Even the internet surfing may also in fact be more socialising through the popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo which could be costing UK corporations close to £6.5 billion annually in lost productivity alone. A poll was carried out amongst 776 UK office workers, who admitted to spending at least 30 minutes a day visiting social networking sites whilst at work, that's a minimum of 10 hours a month which equates to 3 weeks of every year with two respondents who were so hooked that the spend 3 hours
visiting these sites everyday..!
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