WASHINGTON — Just because we’ve clocked in at work, that doesn’t mean we’re working.
That’s the word from a new study of about 2,000 workers. The surveyed employees reported that they spend only about 45 percent of their time at work actually fulfilling their primary work responsibilities meaning they spend more than half their time at the office doing something else.
What do most workers say they’re spending the rest of their time doing? Email, meetings and administrative tasks topped the list. Wasteful meetings and excessive emails and oversight led the list of things that workers said took away from their productivity.
The survey on Entrepreneur was conducted by project management software developer AtTask and the marketing research firm Harris Interactive.
WTOP’s Lori Lundin contributed to this report. Follow @WTOP on Twitter and WTOP on Facebook.
