During an 8-hour workday, the average worker only spends 4 hours and 12 minutes actively working. Keep reading to see what employees are doing instead of working. Here are other top findings:

- 47% of workers admit to surfing the internet at work, making it the most common off-task behavior.

- 78% of respondents reported not needing 8 hours to complete their daily work.

- Employees spend an average of 1 hour and 5 minutes reading news websites during the work day.

- Employees consider 71% of time spent in meetings as unproductive.

- Between 25 to 90 minutes is the optimal amount of time to focus on intellectual, attention-heavy work.

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