Waste of Time

According to a survey quoted in the January/February issue of The Atlantic, "one in four U.S. workers reads blogs regularly while at work, losing...some nine percent of the workweek". Other time is lost trying to decipher poorly written email.

I'm sure we are not losing more productivity now than previously; surely there were other activities that provided workers a "break" from the day - though I couldn't find a study to prove it.