Workers Spend 25% of Time Goofing Off Online

As you read this while you're supposed to be working, you're just finding out that one quarter of office time is spent online for decidedly un-work-related purposes. Surpriiiiiise!

I have an airtight excuse: I must test our Facebook app daily. Our CTO handed me the edict personally. So there you have it, your honor.

Actually, when I used to work in normal offices, I would keep a recent spreadsheet open, and be ready with the Ctl-Tab to bring it to the foreground, thus disguising my perusals of old-skool stuff like Plastic and Stickdeath. This one time, though, I did some ranking work for Alltrue Networks* (before they went under and subsequently resurfaced), and my specific task was to view lo-fi homemade porn clips (this was pre-Youtube; they were way ahead of their time, doing user-generated content before it was a buzzword) and rate them on an "extreme scale". It was actually more boring than it sounded. Ironically, I had my tax forms with me, and would goof off by filling them out. How sad is that?!
 

Mike and Rachel, if you're reading this, then it wasn't me... and if it was, then I was doing, uh, research. For example, if I surfed the web-- which I don't-- then I'd eschew eBay, Amazon, and Youtube and probably waste a bit of time on sites such as Neatorama, Wired, and Instructables. And blogTO.Oh, and Postsecret.

Or so I'm told.

(* I won't link to them here, since it has NSFW content)