More than two thirds of workers say they waste time every day while at work, mostly surfing news websites, a new study has found.
Thirty-four per cent said they wasted 30 minutes or less each day, 24% said they wasted between 30 minutes and an hour, and 11% said they wasted time for several hours.
As many as 21% said they only slacked off one or two times per week, and 10% said they never wasted any time at all, 'News.Com.Au' reported.
The survey was conducted by a US jobs website on more than 1,000 workers to find out what people do at work when they're not actually working.
Twenty% said they never visited non-work related websites in the office, 14% said they most often checked social media sites, and 12% said on-line shopping sites were their biggest weakness.
Almost one-third of respondents said their boss addressed the issue by blocking access to some personal sites at work.
However, more than half (52%) obviously aren't fazed, and are happy to get around any bans by using their smartphone or tablet.
The more educated people were the more likely were they to waste time, with 76% with doctorate degrees admitting to time-wasting every day, compared with 59% of people with a high school diploma or less.
Divorced people are also likely to be more diligent employees, with just 51% wasting time daily compared with 75% of singles and 75% of people in relationships, survey by website salary.Com found.
The survey found that Tuesday between 9am and 11am is the most productive time while between 3pm and 5pm on a Friday, a person is least productive, the report said.
Most wasteful day is topped by Friday at 43%, followed by Monday (16%), Wednesday (9%), Thursday (6%) and Tuesday (3%).
Most wasteful time slot is between 3-5 pm (27%) followed by 1-3 pm slot (16%), 7-9 am (15%), 11am-1pm (13%) and 9-11am (10%).
The biggest distraction in the workplace include: Too many meetings (19%), inefficient team members (17%), coworkers (17%), office politics (13%), busy work (13%), other (11%), and 'my boss' (8%).
Thirty-four per cent said they wasted 30 minutes or less each day, 24% said they wasted between 30 minutes and an hour, and 11% said they wasted time for several hours.
As many as 21% said they only slacked off one or two times per week, and 10% said they never wasted any time at all, 'News.Com.Au' reported.
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Most people (37%) said their most frequent time-wasting websites were news sites.
The survey was conducted by a US jobs website on more than 1,000 workers to find out what people do at work when they're not actually working.
Twenty% said they never visited non-work related websites in the office, 14% said they most often checked social media sites, and 12% said on-line shopping sites were their biggest weakness.
Almost one-third of respondents said their boss addressed the issue by blocking access to some personal sites at work.
However, more than half (52%) obviously aren't fazed, and are happy to get around any bans by using their smartphone or tablet.
The more educated people were the more likely were they to waste time, with 76% with doctorate degrees admitting to time-wasting every day, compared with 59% of people with a high school diploma or less.
Divorced people are also likely to be more diligent employees, with just 51% wasting time daily compared with 75% of singles and 75% of people in relationships, survey by website salary.Com found.
The survey found that Tuesday between 9am and 11am is the most productive time while between 3pm and 5pm on a Friday, a person is least productive, the report said.
Most wasteful day is topped by Friday at 43%, followed by Monday (16%), Wednesday (9%), Thursday (6%) and Tuesday (3%).
Most wasteful time slot is between 3-5 pm (27%) followed by 1-3 pm slot (16%), 7-9 am (15%), 11am-1pm (13%) and 9-11am (10%).
The biggest distraction in the workplace include: Too many meetings (19%), inefficient team members (17%), coworkers (17%), office politics (13%), busy work (13%), other (11%), and 'my boss' (8%).
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