| A new study released by Salary.com and AOL found that American workers admitted they spend, on average, 2.09 hours a day doing non-work related things – and the single largest distraction is personal Internet surfing.
The survey, which included responses from more than 10,000 workers, found that non-work related activities such as surfing the web, is costing US companies more than $759 billion dollars a year in lost productivity alone. It was noted that personal web surfing not only costs businesses money because of lost production but also could open up an organization to potential lawsuits because of inappropriate employee behavior. Other costs of excessive internet use are reduced network bandwidth, increased help desk calls caused by the downloading of viruses, spyware and potentially harmful software, and increased use of company hard drive space for storage of non-work related files. |
