Comments on: News Flash: Your Employees are Wasting Time on the Internet

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:27:22 +0000

TimeOP.com is a great solution to this problem. It empowers both the employees and the employer to monitor how they (or their team) spends time on the web and using various application.

It does not deny access, but rather assigns responsibility for how productively time is used in an open, unintrusive fashion.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:21:41 +0000

While this is true, the addiction to de-stressing and time wasting is not a subject to be taken lightly. Our interns especially are exhibiting alarmingly socialite-like behavior and openly resent their work assignments. They drink like fish at after hours gatherings and mess around online for hours on end during the work day, on their phones if we block the websites internally. They seem to require a lot more stimulus and stress relieving activity.

By: 10 Things We Learned Today

10 Things We Learned Today — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:21:10 +0000

[...] In a recent survey, Britain discovers that employees are distracted by social networking sites. [...]

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:21:27 +0000

That’s a great point, Anthony — in fact, studies have been done that show employees who “waste” time by socializing are actually less stressed and more productive overall. Thanks for the comment.

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:53:47 +0000

Last time I was out on a Virginia winery picnic excursion with a bunch of DC-area friends of mine, one of the hilarious topics of conversation was how much time they actually spent working. The joke was “next to none”, followed by a long list of great sites (other than FB and YouTube) to visit during working hours, IE “Failblog” and “Collegehumor”, and then everyone pulled out their iPhones for app bragging hour. I completely believe in the results of this article.

By: Jack C

Jack C — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:24:09 +0000

While I’d agree that there is much waste in “social” (in-person and online), the benefits go beyond simply recharging one’s batteries. Inspiration is a broadly collaborative process. Something I read today, on a tech blog for example, could be a key ingredient in a brilliant idea I come up with a year from now.

By: Deranged Shaman

Deranged Shaman — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:56:45 +0000

Talk about stating the obvious, whats next? study on how smoking cigarettes still causes cancer.

By: SomeGuy

SomeGuy — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:21:59 +0000

Pretty sure productivity is at an all time high. Isn’t that one of the big problems with the economic recovery, productivity has gotten so high that even if a company’s sales are going up, they don’t need to have as many workers as would have in the past?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:42:14 +0000

What these studies tend to ignore is that by ‘wasting time’ employees, especially those in software development or high stress or pressure positions, need to be able to distract themselves or let off some steam or just ‘free their mind’ or they will burn out very quickly.

That’s a study I’d like to see. The amount of productivity lost having to train someone to replace a worker that burnt out.

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:03:11 +0000

I had a boss who used to say that the quality of the day was measured in how many airplanes he saw from his office window. The more airplanes he had time to watch, the fewer the number of problems he had to deal with that day.