Who wastes the most time at work ?

The distractions are endless. More than 1.1 billion active Facebook users upload 350M photos daily.  And more than 100 hours of video join the YouTube database every minute.

The simple truth: People waste time at work

Whether it’s web surfing, engaging in personal phone calls, searching for new job opportunities, gossiping by the water cooler, shopping online, exploring social networks or checking personal email, a great deal of working time slips away. Of all workplace distractions, the Internet is the greatest productivity drain.

Sixty four percent of employees visit non-work related websites each day. In this category, the amount of time wasted per week on non-work related websites is as follows:  

Time Wasted                  % of Employees
1-2 hours                               29%
2-5 hours                               21%
6-10 hours                             8%
10+ hours                               3%

Contributing to these percentages are social media networks. The winners for the time-loss warp are Tumblr (57%), Facebook (52%), Twitter (17%), Instagram (11%) and SnapChat (4%).

How much is too much?

Imagine an employee who works 2,080 hours per year (260 days). If she/he is in top the bracket of time wasters, she/he wastes 520 hours per year. That’s 25% of her total hours at work spent on unproductive activities. Clearly this costs company capital.

Why do employees waste so much time?

According to recent data from Salary.com, employees give the following responses:

·      34% of employees say they are not challenged
·      34% say they work long hours
·      32% say there’s no incentive to work harder
·      30% are unsatisfied with work
·      23% are just plain bored
·      18% say it’s due to low wages

Who wastes the most time?

Employees can be classified into three general categories: Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y (Millennials). Each category tends statistically towards a set of predominant habits and traits. Knowing these possible traits can help you manage the strengths and weaknesses of each group as it pertains to time misspent in the workplace.

• Millennials (Gen Y) – born between the years of 1982 – 2004. They had access to the Internet and cell phones for communication.
• Generation X – born between the years of 1965 -1981; they had a mix of Internet/cell phones in their later years.
• Baby Boomers – born between the years 1946 – 1964. They had no Internet/cell phones even in college. They are immigrants to a technology-based society.

According to a study, Millennials waste more than twice as much time as Boomers. Boomers waste the least amount of time: about 41 minutes per day. Next are Gen X’ers who waste 1.6 hours per day. Millennials waste about 2 hours per day—an entire 40 hours a month