U.S. Government Crippled by Sex, Gaming Sites

BobB writes "The U.S. Department of the Interior's inspector general has released a report that says department employees are wasting their taxpayer-funded work time going to prohibited web sites. Some of these sites relate to sex, computer games, gambling and auctions. The study found that almost $2 billion a year in productivity was being lost to these 'excessive indulgences.'" From the article: "Computer-use logs revealed more than 4,732 entries relating to sexually explicit Web sites and gambling sites. Some computers accessed sex sites for 30 to 60 minutes during the test period. More than 1 million log entries were discovered indicating 7,763 Department computer users spent 2,004-plus hours accessing game and auction sites. Extrapolated over the year, that could account for 100,000 lost work hours. Put another way, this would equal 50 full-time employees doing nothing but surfing online game and auction sites."

Comments

Hmmm

[antifoidulus]

Put another way, this would equal 50 full-time employees doing nothing but surfing online game and auction sites."
I just have one question: are they taking applications?

Re:Hmmm

[tobiasly]

Put another way, this would equal 50 full-time employees doing nothing but surfing online game and auction sites."
I just have one question: are they taking applications?

I dunno, but if there are that many government employees going to auction sites, I'm gonna go try to sell my hammer on eBay for $600...

Re:Hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, it's even less time than that (unless an hour suddenly became 100 minutes). 2000 hours divided among 7800 employees yields ~.25 hours per employee per week. So, each employee averages about 15 minutes slacking per week, or 3 minutes per day. They must slack in other ways because that's incredibly low.

Re:Who's doing it, tho?

[Bravoc]

Not Me!

I waste my time at work reading Slashdot

er... wait a minute....