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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. Re:Slashdot's Stats by jakupovic · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. Re:Website Owners by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  3. Re:Website Owners by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i'm glad one of you gay niggers out there wasted a mod point on the parent post.