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Workers wasting away to nothing: Survey: Americans love to slack off on the job
By Jay Fitzgerald
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - Updated: 09:45 AM EST
They're on to us.
A new survey by Needham-based Salary.com and America Online shows the average American worker wastes about 2.09 hours a day at work, costing employers about $759 billion a year in pay for no apparent benefits.
It gets worse. They break it down by state.
The survey found Massachusetts workers on average fritter away 1.9 hours a day, costing local employers about $14 billion a year. And that doesn't even include lunch.
Bay Staters ranked 31st on thelist.
Kentuckians are apparently the biggest workplace slackers, wasting about 4 hours a day per employee, according to the Salary.com-AOL survey of about 10,000 U.S. workers.
The top wile-away-the-day activity is surfing the Internet, according to the Salary.com-AOL survey.
The second favorite time waster is socializing with co-workers, followed by conducting personal business.
Nearly 4 percent of those surveyed admit to ``spacing out'' on the job. Other ways workers waste time: running errands off premises and making personal phone calls. '
``Applying for other jobs'' ranked seventh on the slackers' things-to-do list.
The most common excuse layabouts use to justify their time wasting: ``Don't have enough work to do.''
Richard Cellini, chief researcher for Salary.com, said the survey results don't include lunch hours. There goes that excuse.
Cellini added that most employers assume that one non-lunch hour is wasted every day per employee. That assumption is often built into ``salary models'' used by employers, he said.
But human-resources personnel have long suspected that employees' time-wasting antics really amount to about 1.6 non-lunch hours lost per day, Cellini said.
Now they have data showing it could be in the two-hour range, he said.
Just for the record: Men and women waste about the same amount of time, though ``HR managers surveyed suspected that women waste more time,'' according to the report.
Older workers waste less time than younger workers.
The insurance industry has the highest rate of clock-watchers. [continue]
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Workers wasting away to nothing: Survey: Americans love to slack off on the job
By Jay Fitzgerald
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - Updated: 09:45 AM EST
They're on to us.
A new survey by Needham-based Salary.com and America Online shows the average American worker wastes about 2.09 hours a day at work, costing employers about $759 billion a year in pay for no apparent benefits.
It gets worse. They break it down by state.
The survey found Massachusetts workers on average fritter away 1.9 hours a day, costing local employers about $14 billion a year. And that doesn't even include lunch.
Bay Staters ranked 31st on thelist.
Kentuckians are apparently the biggest workplace slackers, wasting about 4 hours a day per employee, according to the Salary.com-AOL survey of about 10,000 U.S. workers.
The top wile-away-the-day activity is surfing the Internet, according to the Salary.com-AOL survey.
The second favorite time waster is socializing with co-workers, followed by conducting personal business.
Nearly 4 percent of those surveyed admit to ``spacing out'' on the job. Other ways workers waste time: running errands off premises and making personal phone calls. '
``Applying for other jobs'' ranked seventh on the slackers' things-to-do list.
The most common excuse layabouts use to justify their time wasting: ``Don't have enough work to do.''
Richard Cellini, chief researcher for Salary.com, said the survey results don't include lunch hours. There goes that excuse.
Cellini added that most employers assume that one non-lunch hour is wasted every day per employee. That assumption is often built into ``salary models'' used by employers, he said.
But human-resources personnel have long suspected that employees' time-wasting antics really amount to about 1.6 non-lunch hours lost per day, Cellini said.
Now they have data showing it could be in the two-hour range, he said.
Just for the record: Men and women waste about the same amount of time, though ``HR managers surveyed suspected that women waste more time,'' according to the report.
Older workers waste less time than younger workers.
The insurance industry has the highest rate of clock-watchers. [continue]
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I sit at a desk and answer calls all day. If I get out of my seat, I have to be in an "idle code" or a call will go unanswered, and I can loose my job. If I spend too much time in a specific idle code, I will be questioned, if I continue to to use an idle code (personal, project, etc.) too often, I could loose my job. The only place I can slack and get away with it, is at home.....then my boss (aka - wife) lets me have it.
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I was just gonna respond the same way...
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Oh sure, ya'll read my post but dont respond. Cold, Cold.
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Originally Posted by zapster
Kentuckians are apparently the biggest workplace slackers, wasting about 4 hours a day per employee, according to the Salary.com-AOL survey of about 10,000 U.S. workers.
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He slacked off so much here that Steve had to give him a job.
But, it's in the blood. Eventually, Steve will have to fire him.
But Georgia is no prize.
Steve will just hire somebody else from Kentucky.
But, it's in the blood. Eventually, Steve will have to fire him.
But Georgia is no prize.
Steve will just hire somebody else from Kentucky.
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i actually get to sit down and do nothing for hrs and hrs sometimes while on the clock...the boss will come over and read my newspaper..i don't have to punch out for lunch or anything!
if i have a roller in my lathe and it takes 3 hrs to go from one side to the other i sit and "listen" to it..sometimes the slightest vibration will lead to tool failure and maybe a damaged roller if your not fast to react to it..so as long as its spinning...i'm sitting with my feet up and relaxing...and theres nothing i can do about it 
...zap!
if i have a roller in my lathe and it takes 3 hrs to go from one side to the other i sit and "listen" to it..sometimes the slightest vibration will lead to tool failure and maybe a damaged roller if your not fast to react to it..so as long as its spinning...i'm sitting with my feet up and relaxing...and theres nothing i can do about it
...zap!
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Originally Posted by zapster
i actually get to sit down and do nothing for hrs and hrs sometimes while on the clock...the boss will come over and read my newspaper..i don't have to punch out for lunch or anything!
if i have a roller in my lathe and it takes 3 hrs to go from one side to the other i sit and "listen" to it..sometimes the slightest vibration will lead to tool failure and maybe a damaged roller if your not fast to react to it..so as long as its spinning...i'm sitting with my feet up and relaxing...and theres nothing i can do about it
...zap!
if i have a roller in my lathe and it takes 3 hrs to go from one side to the other i sit and "listen" to it..sometimes the slightest vibration will lead to tool failure and maybe a damaged roller if your not fast to react to it..so as long as its spinning...i'm sitting with my feet up and relaxing...and theres nothing i can do about it
...zap!
I want YOUR job zap.
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Hey Brad..............
At last I know where you get the time for all your posts !!!!
"Kentuckians are apparently the biggest workplace slackers, wasting about 4 hours a day per employee, according to the Salary.com-AOL survey of about 10,000 U.S. workers."
At last I know where you get the time for all your posts !!!!
"Kentuckians are apparently the biggest workplace slackers, wasting about 4 hours a day per employee, according to the Salary.com-AOL survey of about 10,000 U.S. workers."
