What to do at work besides working

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Shouldn’t you be doing something else right now? Anyhow, if you’re wasting your employer’s time, you’re not alone. According to a survey by AOL and Salary.com, “the average worker admits to frittering away 2.09 hours per eight-hour workday, not including lunch and scheduled break-time.” How do people while away the hours when they’re supposed to be working but aren’t? The chief diversion is surfing the Internet for personal use, a sin to which 45 percent of the survey’s respondents confessed.

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