With technology today, opportunities and unfavorable circumstances are created especially in a place of business. Technology has improve communication networks, attracting human capital, enhanced efficiency, and etc. On the other hand, technology can cause communication breakdowns, increase the input level of stress, distractions, and so on and so forth.
Looking at the unenthusiastic side of technology, the questions becomes "Exactly how much time productive time is wasted at work?" According to recent article 2013 Wasting Time at Work Survey, written by Aaron Gouveia, their survey respondents said:
0-30 Minutes 34%
30-60 Minutes 24%
Several Hours a Day 11%
1-2 Times a Week. 21%
Claimed to Never 10%
"When we last did this survey in 2012, 64% of our survey respondents said they waste time at work on a daily basis. This year that number is on the rise as 69% of the people surveyed in 2013 said they waste time at work every single day. (Aaron Gouveia). This results clearly presents as technology advances so does resisting weakness.
Even if companies/organizations are to block personal websites on their work computers, employees still have their smart phones enabling the use of mobile applications at the touch of their finger tips. But why are employees are wasting so much valuable time on non-related work matters. Lets look at Dan Malachowsi top five time wasting excuses:
Don't have enough work to do 33.2%
Underpaid for amount of work 23.4%
Co-workers distract me 14.7%
Not enough after-work time 12.0%
Other 16.7%
Throughout my research there were many and more excuses that were used but I decided to use Malachowsi due to simplistic reasoning and what I would I personally choose as an excuse.
Looking at the unenthusiastic side of technology, the questions becomes "Exactly how much time productive time is wasted at work?" According to recent article 2013 Wasting Time at Work Survey, written by Aaron Gouveia, their survey respondents said:
0-30 Minutes 34%
30-60 Minutes 24%
Several Hours a Day 11%
1-2 Times a Week. 21%
Claimed to Never 10%
"When we last did this survey in 2012, 64% of our survey respondents said they waste time at work on a daily basis. This year that number is on the rise as 69% of the people surveyed in 2013 said they waste time at work every single day. (Aaron Gouveia). This results clearly presents as technology advances so does resisting weakness.
Even if companies/organizations are to block personal websites on their work computers, employees still have their smart phones enabling the use of mobile applications at the touch of their finger tips. But why are employees are wasting so much valuable time on non-related work matters. Lets look at Dan Malachowsi top five time wasting excuses:
Don't have enough work to do 33.2%
Underpaid for amount of work 23.4%
Co-workers distract me 14.7%
Not enough after-work time 12.0%
Other 16.7%
Throughout my research there were many and more excuses that were used but I decided to use Malachowsi due to simplistic reasoning and what I would I personally choose as an excuse.
http://www.salary.com/2013%2Dwasting%2Dtime%2Dat%2Dwork%2Dsurvey/slide/2/
http://www.davidsonstaffing.com/articles/salary/wasted-time/
http://www.davidsonstaffing.com/articles/salary/wasted-time/
The internet does have a big impact on business due to how time their employees are wasting in not related activities, but we cannot blame entirely the internet, some people dont like to work so they will find a way not to do it, and some others will say their underpaid, co-workers distract them or some others example you said. Lets be honest some days workers are going to be lazy and they are not going to do what they are assigned on their going to waste their time in others stuff. In my opinion we cannot entirely blame the internet, employees have to blame their self because they are deciding to waste their time in something else that is not related to work.
ReplyDeleteIf we put a rule or restriction on one thing and then another, and then another, where will it stop? I feel like there is just simply too much distraction available ie. youtube, facebook, etc. Overload people with work and there will not be enough time to play around.
ReplyDeleteThat is alarming news. Many employees waste over 10% of their work day? If employers took this into serious consideration, is it possible that they would shorten the work day? If the workday was shortened, maybe employees would be more motivated to work in the shorter time they are at work. Not only is this lazy, it is also unethical.
ReplyDeleteWorking in two very different industries I see how the lack of work makes workers misuse the company computers. On one job sometimes I don’t have time to take my lunch, we are that busy and I never see anybody using their computers for anything than work. On my other job we spend hours on standby and I have seen people try to access pornographic content that is how bored we are. I believe that if your employees have time to misuse the company computers than you are not efficiently using them.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting post. I definitely think that technology definitely can be a distraction, in general. I think it's crazy that most of the people surveyed felt as if they didn't have enough work to do. Most people you talk to seem to be overworked. If it's true that the employees feel this way, companies should figure out how to give their employees more responsibility. Worst case scenario, it might be necessary to let some employees go. It may be more workers than actually needed for the job.
ReplyDeleteI'm not surprised that underpaid excused would be 2nd on the list. Usually employees who feels that they're under paid dont get much work done and fool around more. "Minimum pay, minimum work" Smart phones are very distracting too, everyone is logged onto Facebook now.
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