If You’re Reading This at Work…

[Richard]

Interesting.

Richard's $.02

If You’re Reading This at Work…
Freakonomics, NYT, 3 Apr 2009

… you’re probably 9 percent more productive than your co-workers — unless you’re an internet addict. That’s according to new research out of the University of Melbourne, which found that Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing (WILB) improves productivity by giving internet-centric workers a chance to refocus their minds between tasks. The increase is startling; workers who spend as much as 20 percent of their office time leisure browsing actually get more work done than workers who don’t.

How can you tell if you’re edging up to that 20 percent threshold? Rescue Time, for one. http://www.rescuetime.com/

[Moving Target]

Having worked behind a keyboard before, I can definitely say I agree.

The tedium of writing a bland, resource citing report, or working on some sort of database, is greatly alleviated by a quick stop to Wikipedia or another similar source, just to learn a bit about what you were thinking (though it may or may not actually be good information, or even approaching true).

Avoid message boards though, especially if you like to argue.

[cornelyj]

@ work guilty as charged....