Time Spent Wasted at Work - 12 Percent

Pete Prestipino
by Pete Prestipino 15 Feb, 2012
Time Spent Wasted at Work - 12 Percent

Time tracking platform DeskTime released some interesting data showing that the average employee will spend 12 percent of the working day using unproductive applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Only 59 percent of the day is spend using applications deemed productive.

Time tracking software could prove to be a useful addition to your enterprise. The DeskTime study showed that after a month of using a time tracking system, the productivity of an employee increases by 15 percent. In this case, those tracked had access to the data and could see which apps they use and the amount of time spend productively, unproductively and neutrally.

The statistics also show information on generic working habits, such as a high level of different applications used (including both desktop applications, as well as different web sites) - which indicates a tendency to be doing a lot of link-jumping at work.

Pete Prestipino
Pete Prestipino
Digital marketing executive with proven experience in all aspects of search engine optimization (SEO), performance-based advertising, consumer-generated/social media, email marketing, lead generation, Web design, usability, and analytics. - 20-year Internet marketing veteran, currently serving as the Digital Marketing Campaign Manager at Antenna Group (formerly Chicago Digital). - Former Editor-In-Chief of Website Magazine, and a regular speaker on Web technology digital marketing strategy - Author of several books on digital marketing Including Web 360: The Fundamentals of Web Success; Affiliate 360: The Fundamentals of Performance Marketing; Domains 360: The Fundamentals of Buying & Selling Domain Names, and SEO 360: The Fundamentals of Search Engine Optimization.