At the end of last year Online MBA put together an interesting infographic about the way people spend (or waste) time in the workplace, and it quickly spread throughout the realms of the internet – likely by those people who were wasting their time on the web during their workday.
Among the most fascinating statistics displayed:
- -The average worker admits to wasting 3 hours per 8-hour workday (not including lunch and scheduled breaks.)
- -64% of workers admit using the Internet for personal purposes during work hours.
- -65% of YouTube viewers watch between 9am and 5pm on weekdays when (presumably) at work.
- -18 hours a week spend surfing the web during work hours translates to $759 billion total salary cost for employers.
- -Fantasy football alone cost employers $10.5 billion in lost productivity.
Now to be fair, workers often need to take brief, mental breaks between their periods of hard-working, productive time, but maybe if business owners provided their workers with some fun office toys, like custom Rubik’s cubes or imprinted Mind Trap puzzles employees’ downtime could be spent in a way that still keeps the brain waves functioning at an optimal level.