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So this gives us a good idea of what the average office worker might be getting up to throughout the working day and if you’re running a business with office-based employees, you’re looking at one of the biggest barriers to productivity. In fact, five out of the top ten workplace distractions ranked in this study involve the internet or phone apps. What a surprise, social media is the biggest distraction (47%) and reading news websites comes in at a close second (45%). Discussing out of work activities with colleagues – 38%.This is a difficult question to answer on a personal level because – let’s face it – we’re good at lying to ourselves and believing what we want to believe.Ī study by VoucherCloud asked 1,989 UK full-time office workers about their daily working habits and found the top ten distractions keeping them from getting things done were:

In other words, these findings suggest we’re only productive for less than 37% of an 8-hour working day and there are plenty of other studies with similar conclusions.Īny entrepreneur is going to weep into their coffee at that kind of statistic and things are even worse for business owners tallying up the total amount of wasted hours between all of their employees.Ĭlearly, we’ve got a productivity problem on our hands but what’s keeping us from hitting targets consistently? What’s keeping us from being productive? Two separate studies – one carried out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (US) and another by VoucherCloud (UK) – both find the average worker spends just two hours and 53 minutes being productive during an 8-hour day.Įven if we round this up to three hours per day, this still means most of us are spending more than five hours per day, over 25 per week and more than 100 hours every munch underachieving.

In a typical 8-hour day, how many hours do you spend actually being productive? If you’re anything like the average worker, it’s probably a lot less than you would like to admit.