American employees waist 20% of their work day 2

according to the last survey reported by the website Salary.com

http://salary.com/aboutus/layoutscr...cat=cat012&ser=ser041&part=Par674&isdefault=0

Maybe you're one of them

Cyril Guichard
Railroad Sub-System Manager
Belgium

 

[msquared48]

SomptingGuy:

Why would you go to work on Saturday if you wouldn't get paid?

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

 

[SomptingGuy]

I didn't mean it quite like that. Although I have done it before.

Burning idea, Friday night. Crappy weather forecasted, no social plans for the weekend. No mandate to try out those ideas that are burning in your mind. This is often where whole new innovations come from.

Then I got married.

Now, several years later I'm seperated and the weekend is near...

- Steve

 

[cranky108]

Working on a weekend when you don't have to, because you don't have anything else to do.
I've been there, until I got a life. I'm keeping my life, and the weekends are mine to do nothing with.

Yes I do waste time at work, but it makes up for the unpaid over time that is required at other times. The storm jobs, the we have to fix it tonight things.
And then there is the paperwork waste of times that my employer requires, and they payme for.

 

[Zapster]

Egyptian government workers spend an average of 27 minutes a day working.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/ENGLISH/?id=26281

Now there is a problem to overcome.

 

[jmw]

Just flew to Seattle to see some guys and, given a choice of times available they chose to see me on Friday afternoon.
Now in Europe, you'd be lucky to find the cleaners working on a Friday afternoon.
That's 1/2 one day in a 5 day week.
Now let me see that works out to be 10% of the week. So there is 10% back.
I'm sure we'll find the other 10% somewhere, oh yeah, how about the number of days paid holiday in the year?
Europe? 4-5 weeks plus ban holidays.
America?
I'm sure we'll find this 20% is balanced out pretty well.

JMW

http://www.ViscoAnalyser.com

 

[SomptingGuy]

A few more percent can be found in the length of the working week. Our official working week is 37.5 hours long, compared with 40 for our offices in America.

The Friday afternoon thing isn't laziness. Some companies have a policy of long days Mon-Thu and then a half day on Friday. I've worked one place where they had a 39 hour week: 4x8+1x7 - home early on a Friday.


- Steve

 

[JSFSWISS]

I used to be one those people at my other job. We had cubicles so we would just go to each other and talk talk talk. I mean, I always had my job done but still I probably talked a little more than I worked.

At my new job I have my own office so I am in there all the time and I work away. I am way more professional because I am treated like a professional. If I hit a slow period I browse the forum and try to give helpful hints or read up on what can help me. Everything for me is about work, when I am at work.

Thank You
JSF SWISS