Based on the latest research from America Online and Salary.com, the average worker “admits to frittering away 2.09 hours per 8-hour workday”, which now cost USA employers alone over $198 billion per year in lost productivity (based on annual total employer data). Of this lost time, 53.8% can be attributed to recreational Web -surfing, -job hunting, and -personal event planning.
*Average USA annual salary is $50,233 (as of 2007)
