In an article entitled What Blogs Cost American Business, AdAge.com contends that in 2005 alone, employees will waste 551,000 years reading blogs at work.
Some interesting factoids:
- 35 millions workers (25%) visit blogs and spend on average 3.5 hours a week at them.
- Time spent in the office on non-office work blogs is equivalent to 2.3 million jobs.
- U.S. workers will wast 2.3 million business work years this year alone.
What the the article doesn’t mention is if these lost hours are coming out of actual productivity, or the time we spent looking for good travel deals or checking last night’s sports scores, and will Expedia and ESPN suffer because of this.
It also doesn’t talk about the fact that most American workers work longer hours, work through lunch and take our laptops and Blackberries home with us. Don’t we deserve some time to blog off?
This story found via Blogcritics.org.
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