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Websurfing Damaging U.S. Productivity?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the forget-your-job-keep-reading dept.

Bert writes "Ars Technica does a good job of debunking a study that claims that American business lose $178 billion a year to web surfing in the workplace. Particularly alarming is the fact that the study used the beliefs of 350 IT managers to determine how many hours a week the average employee wastes online. Like the article asks: where's the calculation of how much time we all spend answer work e-mail at home?"

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  1. I'm on break by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm reading this during my lunch break, at which time reasonable personal use of the Internet is explicitly allowed by our local management.

    I wonder if I count as "lost productivitiy"?

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  2. Re:Of course.... by gilroy · · Score: 4, Informative

    OK, but Websense has a business interest in promoting the idea that "unregulated" Net access hurts productivity. So really, Ars Technica is just giving the other view -- and the truth, as always, lies somewhere in between.

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