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Serving Time
Wasting time is unfairly criticised. We pester our children not to do it. We take pride in the tasks that ensure we never do it. But we all do it.
According to research conducted by Microsoft, America Online (AOL) and Salary.com, all three organisations reported the same result: workers actually work three days per week while wasting the the other two.
The Microsoft study concluded that American workers, on average, spend 45 hours a week on the job, but describe 16 of those hours as "unproductive".
The Microsoft survey also pointed to time lost in worthless meetings.
The AOL survey says time is lost surfing the Internet.
Bob Kustaka, the founder of Fusion Factor, a 'productivity and time-management' consultancy based in Norwell Massachusetts says "Workers are like athletes in that they are most efficient in concentrated bursts".
As we say in New York City; Working hard, or hardly working ?
