According to a new survey by America Online and Salary.com, the average worker admits to frittering away 2.09 hours per 8-hour workday, not including lunch and scheduled break-time. As a matter of practice, companies assume a certain amount of wasted time when determining employee pay. However, the America Online / Salary.com survey indicates that employees are wasting about twice as much time as their employers expect. Salary.com calculated that employers spend $759 billion per year on salaries for which real work was expected, but not actually performed.
The biggest distraction for employees? Read on how well it is actually categorized..
Top Time-Wasting Activities (%)
1 Surfing Internet (personal use) 44.7%
2 Socializing with co-workers 23.4%
3 Conducting personal business 6.8%
4 Spacing out 3.9%
5 Running errands off-premises 3.1%
6 Making personal phone calls 2.3%
7 Applying for other jobs 1.3%
8 Planning personal events 1.0%
9 Arriving late / Leaving early 1.0%
10 Other 12.5%
Top Time-Wasting Excuses (%)1 Don't have enough work to do 33.2%
2 Underpaid for amount of work 23.4%
3 Co-workers distract me 14.7%
4 Not enough after-work time 12.0%
5 Other 16.7%
And this survey wasnt enough. A follow-up survey of Human Resource managers concluded the following..
Assumed by HR 0.94 hrs.
Suspected by HR 1.60 hrs.
Admitted by Employees 2.09 hrs.
Now reading the above text may really make you wonder about the man hours or effort that might have actually gone in getting those statistics in place. The statistics are often calculated so that based on the trends, corrective measures can be taken so that things fall in place as expected by large organizations. With these trends being observed over 4 to 5 decades now and always showing an upward trend , the companies should seriously check the hours HR guys clock because such audits are can only be ideas of underworked HR employees who are keen to show some results on the 8 hours they put in office.
Even with the so called "Time waste" activities , the growth of Business in any sector has seen no vertical or horizontal limits. Its eternally expanding. So as long as the job gets done well and with all the expectations met and rather exceeded , the youth can still have their time to spare (not waste) to fulfill their worldly desires. One must admit that with age these desires and fun tend to take a back seat, and hence the lesser "time wasted" when it comes to senior employees.
India is the biggest example of how things tend to work if left to themselves . The Thriving IT industry in India delivers the worlds best and most economically viable solutions to the Largest MNC's in the world.. On a more serious note , with the large amount of cheap labor available in India , the big MNC's of the west are already making a fortune cutting down on their IT investments. So they are well cushioned in this direction. With those Big cost savings that India is providing them, it shouldnt really bother them if a budding Techie clocks and extra hour in office while he's out with his girlfriend for the latest Bollywood Flick in town.Remember there is awlays one overworked employee for each underworked employee in India. So the both eventually cancel out each other and hence the balance remains fine.
And yes we can show you stastics for this too.. :)
And one must admit , All work and no fun make Jack a dull boy .. :)
