4Keep an Activity Log

There are not enough hours in the day.” “I don’t have enough time to get it all done.” “I have more on my plate than I can handle.” These are just a few of the popular phrases in the litany of time complaints business people proffer on a daily basis. Despite the very real fact that, in some cases, you do have too much to do, with too little time, a recent survey by America Online and Salary.com revealed that the average employee admits to wasting more than two hours every work day. Which activities are eating away at American workers’ precious productivity? According to the survey, the top time-wasters include:

Surfing the Web

44.7 percent

Chatting with co-workers

23.4 percent

Doing personal business

6.8 percent ...

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