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- TheAttacks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38Kill 1.86 hours on digg? hehe
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25oh god i mistyped "same" and i came back, saw my comment and freaked out and started thinking who "Sam" was :/
Im retarded. - scoot87, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23If this is from a survey, then you would probably think the number is higher than 1.86. Damn Price is Right clips!!!
- syberghost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Not sure what good that will do, if a lot of your job involves tools and documentation that are web-based.
- kolobcreek, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18In France its like 5.2 of their 6 hour work day. Why do you think there are so many cafe's in Europe.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14sam here. id say close to 5, if not more.
- ippersiel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Hi Sam :)
I kill more than that too, but my job requires me to wait until something is broken to fix before I can do something. I'm sure lots of people fall under that category too:
Firefighters, Ambulance Drivers, Call Center Reps, IT Tech Support, *Managers*, Day Care Clerks, Retail Clerks on a Summer Day..... - Araya213, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14"So I guess this is another reason why comapnies outsource thier business to those foreign countries."
Well, there's that and the whole pay below the poverty level thing. - starexplorer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10the beatings will continue until morale improves
- schleufer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Pfft, what a bunch of slackers.
I can easily waste 8 hours in an 8 hour day without even trying. I waste so much friggin time, it spills over into the following day. In fact, at this rate, I'll have to live to be 986 years old in order to make up for all the time I've frittered away.
The Grim Reaper looks at me, and sighs. - jazzyfoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8If you're brave try the Firefox plugin "TimeTracker" (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1887/) to monitor how much time you really spend surfing the web while at work...
BTW, I am definitely above average... I also fritter away more than 1.86 hours per 8-hour workday :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9dont forget also, if you cut the hours to 4, double our pay :D
- Bokista, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I wish that more companies would start implementing the 6 hour work day. I'd feel more compelled to get everything done quickly with that kind of time crunch. Knowing that you're working for two hours less should be an incentive to work harder during that time. I suppose it comes down to whether people would be willing to take that kind of responsibility at the workplace.
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12lol @ the same/Sam confusion.. that was great!
- transeunte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Solution: reduce the 8 hours to 4.
- TriZz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Does that also count the time spent on the weekends with Lumburg?
- Loie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8yeah, 1.86 is way too low.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The features include: "List 'work' sites that should not count"
It won't help if you're Googling around for documentation and whatnot, but should help to nullify time spent on your corporate website. - kingp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Ha!
Where I work, that number isn't even close... - goettel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Don't know about my average. I do know that today, I came in about half an hour late, at about 9:30, and wasted away the day to about 16:30, doing some small things taking about 20m total. Because I have a deadline tomorrow, I actually stayed overtime about 30m. My regular workday is 9 hours, officially. In reality, I'm only there for about 7.5, because my boss is an easy going guy who doesn't really want to know.
So, today I worked slightly less than 3 hours out of 9. Usually, I score much worse.
The only part of slacking I really enjoy is talking ***** with my co-workers, which is easily more enjoyable than the average pub night. The rest is wasted away on the net.
I make slightly over 2000 euro after taxes, for a four day work week of this. I'm on the government payroll. Rest assured, your tax euro's are spent on class food, fine booze and tons of grass.
All true. - waynechng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Project managers often factor a 2.2 hour unproductive time loss per day per worker into their project plans.
- sudonim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Watch out. Next thing you know people could be getting fired for what they post in digg coments ;)
- Desolite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8yeah... i'm much closer to peter's estimate, mmmmmk?
- elpayo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This research is way off. I'd say today I've done about 40 minutes of work.
- Derrelicte, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Yeah 1.86 hours a day is fairly low.
At my temp job, I probably waste 1.86 hours per hour. That's right. I do so little at my job, that I defy all natural laws and make time just for the sole purpose of killing it.
To waste time, I usually head over to the break room and drink coffee and water. I start my workday at 8:30, and by 9:30, my urine is literally clear for the rest of the day. It's very healthy, I think.
I also play Tetris on my cell phone a lot. Yesterday I scored a sweet high game of 230 lines.
It's not like I don't do work...I just have no work to actually do.
But at $10.50/hr, it's a pretty sweet deal for a sophomore in college.
Whelp, looks like I still have about an hour and 15 minutes to whittle away. Off to the break room I go. - goettel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"And workers become substantially more productive when they think they're being monitored."
Actually, what that does to me is sharpen my skills in dodging work. Did that for about a year on some job before they finally caught on. The pay wasn't so good, but that's still about 15000 euro I earned spacing out looking extremely busy and productive.
Far from making me feel good, all the slacking makes me yearn for a job which would allow me to have some (small) positive influence on the whole mess which passes for real life in the West. Most are either grind jobs to buy your boss a Porche, or safe havens of people like me who create a complex web of slacking and budget spending.
I went to Romania once. Farmers, prostitutes, small time crooks, struggling shop owners. That's life. What we call a job over here is just slow death with a paycheck. - Massif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The article makes it seem like non-working time is a bad thing. I take maybe 3-5 bathroom breaks every day, get up to stretch my legs every once in a while, and talk with my co-workers sometimes too. There's nothing wrong with "killing" time. That's what makes us human.
- imnotquitesure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5How much time are people spending looking for a new job while at work?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I work as a clerk in a lawfirm. I'm up there with Peter. Perhaps 30minutes-1hr of real actual work is done. The rest is just waiting around for things to do. In the meantime, its Digg.
- wordsofwisedumb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I have had jobs where I can screw around and personally I got kind of bored. I'm an architect and I really like doing architecture work. Putzing around on the internet is fun but it can get old compared to some of the design work you get to do as an architect.
- Ghostal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I read this survey as saying that the office wastes almost two hours of people's time per day.I can do my work fast and accurate. Many people "wasting time" probably do too. I should be able to go home, but I can't.
Two extra hours at work is 728 hours a year you'll never get back. That's not even including the average commute time (which is rising) which is 90 minutes in the car round trip. There's another 360 hours gone per year. That's a grand total of 45 days lost to nonsense...or about 12% of your year.
It's a happy life if you don't weaken. - mrnonrespondo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Ever since I added Digg to my Google homepage, my productivity has gone down.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5If you work four hours but still get paid for 8, then your pay IS doubled.
- TimDigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I do...
you can do it in MS project 2k3 - Ghostal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If I enter in the American average of 15 days off per year...the time lost to nonsense goes down to 10% per year.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"Kill 1.86 hours on digg? hehe"
I'm not sure the survey included me. If it did, I think I would've thrown the average to 5.4 hours a day. - BobMysterioso, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4yea.. 6.81 for me today..
no typo - scoot87, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7So I guess this is another reason why comapnies outsource thier business to those foreign countries. Not only do they pay less, but also kill less time (probably cuz there is no Indian Digg site)
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6i was about to say.. you could probably reach the same conclusion by taking a user's digg comments, multiply the number of characters in each post.. then use an average wpm to figure out how much time was spent actually typing the comments....
- kwilliam71, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4There's also something to be said for the moral of the worker that is allowed the flexibility to screw around that much. He's probably twice as productive cause he doesn't hate his job as much as the guy that works by the book and to the clock.
- margaritaville, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's sick how many hours are wasted at my company. Then people complain why the company is doing so badly on top of feeling that they are deserving of more than they get. In fact, they don't even work for all they do get. We are truly lazy Americans.
- Saracor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'm far closer to the work 1.86 hours a day and waste the rest...but then I've worked hard to be able to waste this much time.
- caselogic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4its about that when i first get in.. then about 30 minutes of work.. then lunch.. then about another 2 hours of nothing then 30 minutes of work... then go home early. damn you digg.
- dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's only what they'll admit to. And workers become substantially more productive when they think they're being monitored.
Note: I'm posting this during my mandatory 15 minute afternoon break. - jasper976, on 10/12/2007, -3/+61.86 seems like a lowball
- transeunte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3No, really. Working 8 hours a day leads to such a low-quality life that it should be deprecated by now.
- tlogank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Ha, I am about right on with Peter, about 15 mins. a day of real work.
- Mrkamikaze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Personally, working in IT it not a quantative type of work if it were I would have been burned out along time ago.. It’s not like having to dig ditches all day where you work the full eight hours. Besides I work smarter not harder which allows me some time to kick back and check out tech news ultimately making me more knowledgeable about what I do.
- TimDigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31.86 hours?...thats just lunch
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If it doesn't consider focus it does no good; I alt-tab back and forth all day and FF is always open somewhere in there.
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