Several blogs are discussing the AdAge.com article about workers wasting "551,000 years" of work time by reading blogs.
Blog this: U.S. workers in 2005 will waste the equivalent of 551,000 years reading blogs.
About 35 million workers -- one in four people in the labor force -- visit blogs and on average spend 3.5 hours, or 9%, of the work week engaged with them, according to Advertising Age’s analysis. Time spent in the office on non-work blogs this year will take up the equivalent of 2.3 million jobs. Forget lunch breaks -- blog readers essentially take a daily 40-minute blog break.
As you can imagine the reaction from blogs about this article is not positive. Our BloggersBlog.com blog filed the article in the Blog Pessimism category.
Hopefully employers won't use this article as an excuse to try and deny workers access to blogs.
