Going online while at work costs your boss billions a year.
Posted by Capri on June 21, 2007
British workers cost their employers £124 billion a year by wasting time on the internet at work, researchers have discovered.
The average worker devotes 90 minutes a day to “personal” web use and sending emails – adding up to 43 lost working days every year.
Most of this time – 30 minutes a day – is spent shopping for clothes, food and even holidays.
Another 18 minutes is spent sending personal emails, while instant messaging and networking websites such as Myspace take up 14 minutes a day.
Six minutes of each working day is even spent job hunting, according to the poll of 4,000 workers by the search engine Foundem.com.
Another six minutes is spent paying bills.
The majority feel they deserve an internet break because they work so hard.
However, it does not always go unnoticed because 17 per cent of employees admit to having been caught surfing the web when they should have been working.
Two per cent were sacked for the offence.
