High productivity levels within a business are a key aspect to the survival of any organisation. So it’s surprising to find that on average 12.5 working hours a week are being wasted by UK employees on unproductive tasks. A survey carried out by vouchercodespro found that employees who worked seven and a half hours a day were only using 5 of those hours to complete their given tasks.
According to a recent survey carried out by VoucherCodesPro.co.uk’s, employees spend 12.5 working hours on average each week ‘dilly-dallying’ with tasks that have nothing to do with their current workload. The survey was carried out on full time employees within the UK, who should be working approximately seven and a half hours a day. However only five hours of that time was being spent productively. The other two and a half hours were most commonly being wasted on the same 10 tasks. Can you guess what these are?
Out of the employees surveyed 89% of them admitted to overly checking social media channels such as LinkedIn, Facebook and twitter in work time. This was then closely followed by internet shopping/ paying of bills which 84% of employees admitted to doing.
Of the employees surveyed 58% of them admitted they weren’t scared of the repercussions as they didn’t believe they would get caught. 22% of employees admitted they were careful not to be caught off duties. Surprisingly 20% of people revealed that their boss didn’t actually mind them taking time out from their supposed tasks as long as all work was completed on time.
Amazingly some 39% even admitted to viewing adult websites during working hours.
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