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  U.S. workers say they waste 2 hours a day - Boston.com - Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Most U.S. companies assume about an hour of wasted time, but workers admit to actually frittering away more than twice as much time at a cost of $759 billion in annual paid salary that results in no apparent productivity, an online survey conducted by America Online and Salary.com showed.
Wasted time did not include the standard lunch hour.
Men and women wasted an equal amount of time at work, but older workers were significantly more attentive than younger workers, the survey showed.
www.boston.com /business/articles/2005/07/11/us_workers_say_they_waste_2_hours_a_day   (323 words)

  
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 Salary.com™ Careers & Jobs by Location and Category
Regionally, the most time appears to be wasted in the Midwest, while the least appears to be wasted in the South.
Salary Dollars Wasted column reports (for each state shown) the total value of all salary dollars actually paid by employers, for which work was expected but not actually performed by employees.
If you are guilty of wasting a little time at work, and reading this far may indicate that you are, it may be comforting to know that you are not alone.
www.salary.com /careers/layoutscripts/crel_display.asp?tab=cre&cat=nocat&ser=Ser374&part=Par555   (897 words)

  
 CareerJournal | Why Are You Wasting Your Time at Work?
While most human-resource managers expect the average employee to waste about an hour a day, the results of this survey were startling.
Wasting time at work could be a signal of your unhappiness at your job.
If you notice yourself increasingly wasting time, ask yourself how valuable that time is to you; perhaps it's time to start putting your time and energy towards work you'll enjoy, rather than suffering through work you do not.
www.careerjournal.com /myc/officelife/20050726-loeb.html?cjpos=myc_whatsnew   (442 words)

  
 VGG | How to Waste Time At Work
To be an effective time waster, you have to chip away at the hours of the day.
The best way to use the internet to your time wasting advantage is to use it for all research.
One good answer that can buy time is, “I’m sorry, I was thinking about how we’re gonna manage to do everything on time and still stay on budget.” They’ll either repeat the question or continue without your input.
www.vgg.com /tp/tp_050201_slack.html   (1084 words)

  
 The Monster Blog: Wasting Time?
Younger workers wasted more time at work; while those born between 1930 and 1949 wasted an average of a half hour a day, those born between 1980 and 1985 wasted an average of 1.95 hours.
COMPANY TIME WASTED: is a Scam, it's on the same line as pilferring; it requires the mind-set of a child and the professionalism of a rock.
I waste loads of time during the day, which I have to recover (obviously without pay) evenings and nights at home, so as to be able to delive on time.
monster.typepad.com /monsterblog/2005/07/wasting_time.html   (6006 words)

  
 End Daylight Saving Time
Farmers, who must wake with the sun no matter what time their clock says, are greatly inconvenienced by having to change their schedule in order to sell their crops to people who observe daylight saving time.
Daylight saving time did indeed begin in the United States during World War I, primarily to save fuel by reducing the need to use artificial lighting.
The earliest known reference to the idea of daylight saving time comes from a purely whimsical 1784 essay by Benjamin Franklin, called "Turkey versus Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle." It was first seriously advocated by William Willit, a British Builder, in his pamphlet "Waste of Daylight" in 1907.
www.standardtime.com   (505 words)

  
 Bill Gates' Web Site - Columns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Wasting somebody else's time strikes me as the height of rudeness.
Although it doesn't take long to detect and delete a single message, going through dozens a day is big waste of time.
When this day comes, spam will cease to be a problem because people will be able to decide what their time is worth and advertisers will have to pay significant sums to reach people.
www.microsoft.com /billgates/columns/1998Essay/3-25col.asp   (1005 words)

  
 Wasting Time at Work Costs Companies Billions
That's twice the time employers estimate and already account for in salaries, costing companies $759 billion a year in wasted salary dollars, AOL said.
Considering the cost of wasted time, it would seem cracking down on this behavior would be in order, but doing so could do more harm than good.
Are you really going to argue with them about wasting an hour or so on the Internet?" she said.
www.inc.com /criticalnews/articles/200507/workers.html   (341 words)

  
 NewsNet5.com - Family - LifeFiles: Wasting My Time
Time wasting is an art form, and my ability to milk a beer is little more than a brushstroke on a Michelangelo-like mural of low productivity.
It's a bit like those philosophers who argue that evil is necessary in the world because it helps us to identify the good -- not wasting my time makes my time wasting all the more satisfying.
This is the time of the year when many people are still setting and breaking life goals.
www.newsnet5.com /family/4070375/detail.html   (725 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Survey: Mo. is No. 1 in slacking at work   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The No. 1 state for wasting time was Missouri, where workers who responded to the survey reported slacking off 3 hours and 12 minutes a day.
More than 44% said the No. 1 way they waste time at work is personal Internet use, like reading e-mail, instant messages, playing interactive games — and responding to online polls.
He noted that some of the wasted time could be considered helpful, however, as conversations and personal Internet use can lead to new business ideas.
www.usatoday.com /money/workplace/2005-07-12-mo-slackers_x.htm   (537 words)

  
 Ohr Somayach :: Ethics :: You're Wasting Your Time!
They suspect that you are indeed capable of helping them but hesitate to do so because they are not worthy of taking up your time by even presenting their case.
It is therefore important for you to at least listen to them and to respond by sympathizing with their problem and reiterating your inability to help them for the reasons that you provide.
In conclusion, people who turn to you may indeed not be wasting their time and neither will you.
ohr.edu /yhiy/article.php/2405/html/rss   (321 words)

  
 Making money without wasting time | InfoWorld | Column | 2002-01-17 | By Michael Vizard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Most of the time the finished good spends traveling from the place where it was made to the place where it is ultimately sold is wasted.
Most of the time that the finished good sits on a shelf waiting to be bought is wasted.
And most of the time spent resolving the transaction once the goods are sold is wasted.
www.infoworld.com /article/02/01/17/020121opnoise_1.html   (1324 words)

  
 God, You're Wasting My Time!
Yet, when it came to my prayer time, I was all about charging ahead, doing spiritual warfare, binding and loosing, shouting down the powers of darkness, and declaring the will of God into the earth.
Rather than filling his time before God with all sorts of words, he would simply put on some quiet “soaking music” and lay at God’s feet.
Without that intimate and quiet time alone with Jesus, the secrets of the kingdom of heaven remain a hazy mystery.
www.cbn.com /spirituallife/Devotions/dailey_wastingtime.asp   (829 words)

  
 Internet Use Tops Workplace Time-Wasting Tasks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The number one way they waste time at work is personal Internet use (e.g., email, IM, online polls, interactive games, message boards, chat rooms, etc.).
Socializing with co-workers was the second most popular form of wasting time at work (23 percent of respondents).
Although in some cases this extra wasted time might be considered 'creative waste' -- time that may well have a positive impact on the company's culture, work environment, and even business results.
accounting.smartpros.com /x48929.xml   (441 words)

  
 Wasted Time At Work Costing Companies Billions
However, the America Online / Salary.com survey indicates that employees are wasting about twice as much time as their employers expect.
If the average worker wastes 1.15 hours more than employers suspect, per 8-hour work day, that adds up to $5,720 per year, per worker in wasted salary dollars.
(2) Salary Dollars Wasted column reports (for each state shown) the total value of all salary dollars actually paid by employers, for which work was expected but not actually performed by employees.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2005/07/11/wastingtime.TMP   (1155 words)

  
 Central Florida Future - University of Central Florida
Smith deserves nothing more than the embarrassment of having a nation laughing at her and living with the thought that she wasted two years of her life parading around trying to convince the world she really loved an 89-year-old man.
Now she's wasting the valuable time of this nation's Supreme Court because she's convinced herself that she deserves money she is not entitled to.
Everyone should be confident that the justices will make the proper decision and not give Smith a single penny and, it should be hoped, condemn her to live with a guilty conscience.
www.centralfloridafuture.com /media/paper174/news/2005/10/10/Opinions/Smith.Wasting.Everyones.Time-1014815.shtml?norewrite200603231756&sourcedomain=www.centralfloridafuture.com   (374 words)

  
 time-wasting time - malevolent design weblog
Combined with the complexities of time zones (including daft half- and quarter-hour offsets), leap years/seconds, and date/time formats, you can imagine how much effort goes into just keeping software’s time-handling accurate.
Because the elections were run by computer, they had to delay their time-switch over to winter because the hour going missing would upset the paranoid election computers and convince them someone was trying to hack the results.
Upshot: half the clocks in the country were on summer time, and everything automated that wasn't involved in the election had switched over to winter-time.
www.malevolent.com /weblog/archive/2005/03/28/time-wasting-time   (338 words)

  
 RIFE : Blogs : Entries for gbevin on Mar 08, 2005
If you want fast startup time, you'll have to use their Krank optimizer which increases the size of your deployed application considerably and requires you to change your code to work correctly after the optimization process.
If you want fast startup time, you'll have to > use their Krank optimizer which increases the size of your deployed > application considerably and requires you to change your code to work > correctly after the optimization process.
I said that I wasted a lot of time by having selected Laszlo, I never said that the technology itself was a waste of time.
rifers.org /blogs/gbevin/2005/3/8/wasting_time_with_laszo   (6957 words)

  
 Time Wasting or Wanting?. Future Tense:
If some people can accomplish their tasks in less time, why is it a problem that they broaden their horizons by learning about other things while on "company time?" Especially if the company is likely to benefit at some future point.
So people are more productive, yet they supposedly waste more time at work than their employers think.
For what it is worth, over a typical week, the few times I can turn it completely 'on' mean that I complete more work than most people in my industry can in the same period.
futuretense.corante.com /archives/2005/07/15/time_wasting_or_wanting.php   (1329 words)

  
 Stop Wasting Time - Computerworld   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
We found a bank where the executives spent more time on the holiday card than their entire strategy for Africa, where they had made large investments.
Then you set common standards for decision-making: If you want to make a decision, you have to have facts around why an issue is on the agenda, alternatives that are weighted as to which will deliver the most value and why, and how to execute.
Enterprises large and small are investing ever-increasing amounts of time and money in designing, implementing, and rolling out more complex and theoretically more robust security systems.
www.computerworld.com /managementtopics/management/story/0,10801,95646,00.html?nas=MGT-95646   (1746 words)

  
 Trafcom News: On "wasting time"
About the idea that those who read blogs are wasting time and damaging corporate productivity, well, that’s an argument that runs counter to the stats we see quite regularly that productivity (in the U.S., at least) is rising.
Anyone who feels that this activity is a waste of time is just being silly.
Agreed: those who think this is a waste of time are SILLY.
trafcom.typepad.com /blog/2005/11/on_wasting_time.html   (587 words)

  
 LAist: Time for wasting
We're guessing if you're reading this right now, you've got a little bit of time to kick back and be good to your own good self.
The contributors to LAist spend an awful lot of time on the internet, and we've compiled this list of some of our favorite blogs for just this kind of moment.
Terra Non Firma - Marissa's blog is where to go for the latest design and LA architecture news.
www.laist.com /archives/2005/12/24/time_for_wasting.php   (329 words)

  
 Wasting Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Paul didn’t use a DayTimer or a Palm Pilot, but he was a master at wise time management.
Far better to invest the time (and the energy and the money!) you might be using in viewing porn to actively fight it.
Putting minutes into that effort is not wasting, using, or spending time.
www.exxit.org /061200.htm   (297 words)

  
 carl0 ricohermoso: a new way of wasting your time.
God, that was the longest time one ever held to the ball as time seemingly slowed itself.
The last time that happend, I think, was in the 1991 PBA First Conference Championship between Ginebra and Shell (that famous comeback of Ginebra from a 1-3 deficit in the Championship enroute to winning the crown via Rudy "the Destroyer" Distrito's buzzer beater).
Since the time he arrived in the Philippines to join the Manila MetroStars in the defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association, he has been a role model and exemplary player, and is definitely more Filipino than most of the Fil-Ams seeing action in the PBA.
www.carloricohermoso.net /blog.php?cat=6   (18346 words)

  
 SheLovesGod.com - A Christian community for women who love God.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Drive Time Devotional Audio CD collection of SheLovesGod study lessons on the topic of Christ's ability to transform your life and help you become the person He knows you can be.
The time we spend wishing them away to reach some exciting future event is precious time wasted that can never be given back.
I know now that wishing life away is just wasting time, and all of the time we are given really is a gift, whether we realize it or not.
www.shelovesgod.com /library/article.cfm?articleid=6497   (1520 words)

  
 stop wasting time on 43 Things   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
daily discipline focus life organize personal personality stop wasting time time work
I spend too much time worrying about things that really don’t matter or are out of my control anyways.
I set myself a time limit of half an hour, which was probably unreasonable, and exceeded it by almost an hour.
www.43things.com /things/view/3904   (739 words)

  
 Keith Devens - Weblog: Time wasting sites - January 02, 2006
There is a rank due to the United States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by...
Contains this falling sand game that everyone's been wasting time with today.
Via diggdot.us, a mashup (I love that word) of slashdot, digg, and del.icio.us/popular which is one of my favorite places to go when I'm looking for links when bored.
keithdevens.com /weblog/archive/2006/Jan/02/time-wasting-sites   (187 words)

  
 Spending Time to Save Time - New York Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Another time, I was listening to someone grouse about how much she hated Windows XP, the way the Start menu listed all kinds of stuff she never used, and didn't list the things she really wished were there.
Now, if I can't find the time--and I'm an extreme case at the distant end of the "spend time to save time" spectrum--how is the ordinary person who's not in the computing field supposed to set up all of these laborsaving devices?
Besides, you'll have plenty of time to streamline your work routine once you retire.
www.nytimes.com /2005/06/09/technology/circuits/09POGUE-EMAIL.html?ex=1275969600&en=04c69def24249187&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss   (692 words)

  
 ABC News: Sharon Bolts Likud to Avoid 'Wasting Time'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
But he did not make clear whether he would let parliament set the date or agree to a request by Sharon to dissolve parliament by decree and call a snap election.
In a televised news conference, Sharon said he left Likud because he didn't want to waste time with political wrangling or miss the opportunities offered by Israel's pullout from Gaza.
However, Sharon ruled out unilateral pullbacks in the West Bank, and said he remains committed to the internationally backed "road map" plan, which calls for a negotiated peace deal culminating in a Palestinian state.
abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1333867   (493 words)

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