If you’re on the job, and you’re reading this story, you should probably get back to work. The average worker wastes more than two hours a day, and that’s not including lunch, according to a new survey by America Online and Salary.com. That means companies spend as much as $759 billion on salaries annually for which they receive no apparent benefit, the research found. The No. 1 state for wasting time was Missouri, where workers who responded to the survey reported slacking off 3 hours and 12 minutes a day. The survey didn’t specifically look at why Missouri is the worst in the nation, but if Missouri workers think the perception is unfair, “We would encourage people to visit the home page and weigh in further on that,” said Richard Cellini, Salary.com’s head of research.
Associated Press via Wired News
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When they say the average worker, do they mean all workers, or just the people who sit at desks. Because I know in construction, which employs millions, if you waste two hours a day you will be employed for less than one day.
I believe the same is true for truck drivers, pool cleaners, garbage collectors, mail carriers, nurses, supermarket checkers, yard maintenance workers, auto mechanics, workers on automated assembly lines in factories, people who set up the presses for daily newspapers and about a gazillion other blue collar workers.