{"id":3348,"date":"2016-02-02T01:43:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T18:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-slackers-guide-to-slacking-at-work-focus-on-the-space-between-your-nose-and-the-screen\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T02:04:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T19:04:04","slug":"a-slackers-guide-to-slacking-at-work-focus-on-the-space-between-your-nose-and-the-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-slackers-guide-to-slacking-at-work-focus-on-the-space-between-your-nose-and-the-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"A slackers&#039; guide to slacking at work: &#039;Focus on the space between your nose and the screen&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nA 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\u2019re 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\u2019t slacking, it\u2019s consuming food you didn\u2019t 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 \u2013 up to a maximum of about 20% of their total office time \u2013 were more productive than people who didn\u2019t. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/shortcuts\/2016\/feb\/01\/slackers-guide-slacking-at-work\" target=\"_blank\">A slackers&#8217; guide to slacking at work: &#8216;Focus on the space between your nose and the screen&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; A new study suggests Americans waste 50 minutes a day a work, but you can&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-S0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45278,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/whats-the-point-of-building-a-million-new-homes-if-theyre-not-fit-to-live-in-john-harris\/","url_meta":{"origin":3348,"position":0},"title":"What\u2019s the point of building a million new homes if they\u2019re not fit to live in? | John Harris","date":"February 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The dream of a property-owning democracy is ridden with cracks and leaks: ministers say build, build, build \u2013 but then fail to ensure proper regulationThey might be the most ubiquitous feature of the modern English landscape, and yet they barely attract any comment: those sprawling newbuild housing developments that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10318,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gardening-is-good-for-you-james-wong\/","url_meta":{"origin":3348,"position":1},"title":"Gardening is good for you | James Wong","date":"April 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A spot of gardening not only gives you a good physical workout but reduces pain and anxiety, tooA Sunday afternoon of pottering round the garden \u2013 a bit of weeding here, mulching a bed there \u2013 doesn\u2019t exactly seem like an arduous workout. 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