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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: ben ji on February 06, 2013, 08:45:56 AM
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http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2013/02/05/study-americans-spend-up-to-80-percent-of-work-time-cyberloafing/
MANHATTAN, Kan. (CBS St. Louis) - A new trend called “cyberloafing” is making its way into places of work throughout the nation – and in a big way.
According to Newswise, the average worker spends 60 to 80 percent of his or her time at the office on the Internet, engaging in tasks that have nothing to do with their jobs.
The study that found out about the inefficiency of the American work force was conducted by a researcher at Kansas State University. Joseph Ugrin, an assistant professor of accounting at KSU, reportedly teamed up with John Pearson, an associate professor of management at Southern Illinois University, to look into the matter.
And when they investigated, they found that all employees – old and young alike – are deviating from work tasks during the day at alarming rates.
“Older people are doing things like managing their finances, while young people found it much more acceptable to spend time on social networking sites like Facebook,” Ugrin was quoted as saying.
Younger employees were especially prone to deviating from work-related activity, most frequently to check social networking sites during work hours, Newswise learned.
“We found that for young people, it was hard to get them to think that social networking was unacceptable behavior,” Ugrin observed. “Just having a policy in place did not change their attitudes or behavior at all. Even when they knew they were being monitored, they still did not care.”
Researchers also noted that the looming threat of managerial reprimand and the perceived presence of “Big Brother” could negatively affect office morale. However, without consequences, employers allegedly may not get anything out of their staff.
Ugrin pondered, “We don’t want to make everyone at work upset because the corporate office is watching over their employees’ shoulders … but what if workers are wasting all of their time online? Where’s the balance?”
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Uh oh, when they get a name for it, somebody will do something about it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberloafing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberloafing)
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they should call cyberloafing "goEMAW'ing"
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Loafing? What the eff ever. What I do here and other places on the multiwebs is too vigorous to be called loafing. More like cyberthrashing.
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i think the problem is that younger people are faster at our job, so we have a lot more free time at work. i'm certainly not going to make it known that i did all of my work in the first hour of the day. :users:
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i think the problem is that younger people are faster at our job, so we have a lot more free time at work. i'm certainly not going to make it known that i did all of my work in the first hour of the day. :users:
Older generations just waste time differently, walking the office bullshitting, talking on the phone, smoking cigs etc.
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all companies should just adopt the "if you get your crap done, we don't give a eff" policy
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all companies should just adopt the "if you get your crap done, we don't give a eff" policy
Most do. The only reason anyone would care that your were :users: is because you arent getting your crap done and they are looking for a reason to fire you.
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all companies should just adopt the "if you get your crap done, we don't give a eff" policy
Most do. The only reason anyone would care that your were :users: is because you arent getting your crap done and they are looking for a reason to fire you.
yeah that's exactly how mine is
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all companies should just adopt the "if you get your crap done, we don't give a eff" policy
Most do. The only reason anyone would care that your were :users: is because you arent getting your crap done and they are looking for a reason to fire you.
They don't give a crap about what you look at, just that you don't use an inordinate amount of resources. Some dumbass in finance at my company was watching netflix movies on her computer and that got IT all fired up.
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crap
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i spend maybe 2% of my work surfing the net.
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i spend maybe 2% of my work surfing the net.
#CarnesBrag
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i spend maybe 2% of my work surfing the net.
My old man once told me, work smarter not harder.
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Joe my accounting professor did this research :users:
He was on the Today Show this morning :users:
He also canceled class on Wednesday :users:
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Joe my accounting professor did this research :users:
He was on the Today Show this morning :users:
He also canceled class on Wednesday :users:
Beat him up when he is back for friday class
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i can't remember the last time that i did more work than BBS'ing in a normal work day.
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it just depends, some days I don't check the bbs at all. I effing missed the WVU thread after it blew up. was sooooo pissed.
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it just depends, some days I don't check the bbs at all. I effing missed the WVU thread after it blew up. was sooooo pissed.
Oh man, I was golfing that afternoon and missed everything until I started getting texts about Schulz's statement about how we weren't representative of the university's views. That was a bummer.
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:users: punched in & settling in for the day.
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The best part about sales is that as long as you're making them money, they don't care what you're doing on your computer.
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