Workers Waste Less Time In West Virginia

West Virginia is ranked number four in the nation in terms of having workers who waste the fewest hours during the workday, according to a recent CNN/Money.com article. The Mountain State’s workforce was one of the least to spend time making personal use of the Internet (including email), socializing with colleagues, conducting personal business, spacing out, running errands, making phone calls, applying for jobs, planning personal events, and arriving late or leaving early. Apparently, that's typical for the American worker, according to a survey released Monday by Salary.com and AOL. More than 10,000 respondents in the online survey admitted to wasting, on average, 2.09 hours per day. West Virginia’s average was 1.4 hours (see state results). According to Salary.com's survey of HR managers, employers expect workers to waste about an hour a day plus lunch. That downtime is even built into the salary structure, Coleman said. But since employees report wasting more than twice what companies expect, he estimates that the extra 1.09 hours of wasted time costs companies an estimated $759 billion a year.