Property News · February 2, 2016

A slackers' guide to slacking at work: 'Focus on the space between your nose and the screen'


A new study suggests Americans waste 50 minutes a day a work, but you can do much better than that if you try hard enoughIf you’re not reading this at work, you should be: according to a new paper, American employees spend an average of 50 minutes of their working day engaged in non-work, ie slacking off. That may not seem like a lot to you; indeed, it may not seem like enough. Fully half of this time was spent eating, which isn’t slacking, it’s consuming food you didn’t have time to ram down your throat during your too-short lunch break.There is plenty of evidence to suggest that a certain amount of loafing is actually good for productivity, because it restores concentration and enhances creativity. One measure of an optimum work-to-slack ratio suggests that 17 minutes of break time should be taken out of every hour. A 2011 University of Melbourne study found that people who surfed the internet at work – up to a maximum of about 20% of their total office time – were more productive than people who didn’t. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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