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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. FD by Dead+Chicken · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Dupe.... oop I mean post.

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  2. grammer nazi by Mahou · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    American businesses lose

    -OR-

    American business loses

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  3. Colon and comma Nazi by Mahou · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oogely boogely!!!

    offtopic? No way, I'm being productive!

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