Workplace time wasters

A survey by recruitment firm Office Angels has found that UK offices lose 72 million hours every week, totalling £6.85 billion a year, enough to build nine Wembley Stadiums each year!

Here are the top office timewasters:

• Over a third of office workers(36%) estimate they spend over five hours a week procrastinating instead of working – including, browsing online, daydreaming and making coffee for their colleagues -15,700,000hrs

• Nearly two thirds (59%) spend at least 30 minutes each week dealing with computer meltdowns and re-boots - 8,050,000hrs

• A sociable 13% admit to spending at least two hours a week gossiping to colleagues - 7,400,000hrs

• One in 10 (13%) lose 20 minutes a week on what they describe as pointless meetings - 7,400,000 hrs

• More than one in 10 (15%) waste an average of an hour a week dealing with indecisive colleagues/clients - 4,335,000 hrs

• 41% lose an average of 20 minutes a week due to office mishaps such as fire drills or power cuts - 3,540,000hrs

• More than one in 10 (14%) admit to keeping colleagues waiting by arriving 10 minutes late to work once a week or are kept waiting themselves by untimely employees - 3,267,600 hrs

[tags] time wasters, office timewasting [/tags]

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