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Social media not the biggest distraction at work

August 20, 2012, 5:30 AM PDT

Takeaway: A new survey reveals the biggest time wasters for workers. The results may surprise some employers

Because of the seemingly worldwide addiction to social media, you might think that Facebook and Twitter would be the biggest time-wasters at work. Not so, according to a new survey from TrackVi. Take a look:

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self reported?

pgit 20th Aug

Did TrackVi factor for the probability that people might under-report "social media" as a time waster in order to preserve their ability to play with facebook, tweet etc?

If someone knows they're wasting a lot of time with facebook, but they love doing so, it's unlikely they'd finger facebook as the biggest waste of their time, I would think.

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My job is to fix those computer glitches

nyssssa 20th Aug

And when users say, "This wouldn't happen on a Mac," I say, "You're right; Macs won't run our software."

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Time wasting? I disagree completely!

mogoredmax 20th Aug

I believe it was the founder of W.L. Gore who realized that most important decision making and information gathering was carried out around the water cooler or at other informal meeting places. The creators of this survey seem to be pandering to the whims of the 'command and control' brigade who purport to be good managers. I'm now off for a coffee and a bit of chat with my fellow 'time wasters'.

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Spent or wasted?

kcskrobela 22nd Aug

At the risk of seeming like a huge Pollyanna...
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
Antoine de St. Exupery, The Little Prince.

Whether or not time is "wasted" may well be impossible to measure. Time "spent" is not necessarily the same as time wasted.

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I've never heard that

andrew232006 22nd Aug

I fail to see any benefit if you're running in a windows VM all the time. You get all the problems of windows and you have to maintain a mac OS on top of that.
Even if the mac file system is better, I doubt the windows VM will be reading faster from it. Doesn't it use an NTFS virtual drive? I'd be more inclined to believe you take a performance hit from running in a VM. And I suspect you'll find a much faster PC for the same price as a mac.

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Same

Slayer_ 22nd Aug

Damn TR...

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