Really?

Amazing:

British workers cost their employers £124 billion a year by wasting time on the internet at work, researchers have discovered.

The
average worker devotes 90 minutes a day to "personal" web use and
sending emails – adding up to 43 lost working days every year.

I don’t believe it for a moment, of course. Anyone who has ever looked at their traffic logs knows that visits fall off a cliff as offices close in the various time zones. By 3 pm California time on a Friday the net is near dead.

Only 90 minutes? Please, give me a break.

3 responses

  1. You are of course correct, as the timing of this comment testifies. However, there is probably a certain amount of embarrassment in telling researchers you actually spend about 50% of your working day browsing the internet.
    The more interesting question is how did we all waste time before the handy web browser?

  2. Matthew Avatar
    Matthew

    Phone calls and smoking breaks, I think.
    I love these statistics about things that ‘cost employers’. How can it costs employers anything except perhaps bandwith costs?

  3. dearieme Avatar
    dearieme

    Counting paperclips.

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