In an 8-Hour Day, the Average Worker Is Productive for 2 Hours and 53 Minutes

Indeed.

In context of mental jobs, like programming, I identify at least three things of wasting time:

- coping with stress (I find myself browsing HN when I'm stressed; whether or not it ultimately helps being less anxious after I close HN is debatable, but it helps for the moment)

- it's hard to get into the zone, and in the meantime, life goes on; especially in the presence of focus-destroying distractions (like open-plan offices), it's easy to think about and check up on non-job-related things in your life that are important

- I like my hot tea and snacks

The first two I can beat if I can get into flow (less external distractions help here - like being alone in a room with doors that close); as for the third, I'm sorry, I'm not gonna plug myself into IV for my boss.

> What if access to social media is made impossible? What did the numbers look like when it didn't exist at all? What happens to the 44 minutes? Does the "productive time" get increased? Or does the "news checking time" gets increased instead to compensate?

In the olden days, it was "newspaper time" instead of "Facebook time," so I'd guess the numbers would look similar.

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I think I read a couple of hours of news etc. at work. Here I am on HN. It's very individual, but I would not be surprised if it's true for most office workers that they work efficiently for 3-4 hours a day. And for a lot of people, some of that time is spent in a meeting...

And how do you justify your behaviour? oO?

You could use your time you get paid for for better things. Doing something for the company you get paid from?

Here have a read: http://bookofhook.blogspot.de/2013/03/smart-guy-productivity...