E-Mail, Text Messages, IMs Cost The US $650 Billion in 2006

...and how much time is wasted by people going through articles such at this and posting replies while at work (btw, I'm not there now...)

...just a thought.

Nothing about how my employer nickle and dimes me to-death? Employees are getting hosed by these companies so quit your whining!

GET BACK TO WORK YOU LOADS!

GET BACK TO WORK YOU LOADS!!!!

I am a seniour Citizen and do not work- nor do I have a cell phone- But I do send our e-mails a few personal ones but most are prayer request-But as for as e-mails -I do not think they are abused any more by people like me then people in Goverment- Even men in congress has abused it -One congress man was charged for using the internet for sex with young boys-SoI do not feel guilty as mine are prayer request -God bless you and thank you for alowing me the space to send my opinion.

In recent years there have been a number of accusations against the workforce for wasting hundreds of billions. The last one was a year ago when it was claimed that Americans taking sick days are costing businesses hundreds of billions a year. How dare we take care of our health! The year before the accusation was that we waste hundreds of billions by taking bathroom breaks. These reports are generated by thinktanks who are paid to find ways to increase workplace productivity, so take it with a grain of salt. Most of us have probably rarely seen anybody do a personal email at work and if we have, it is probably just a few seconds of free time. Big deal.

Why is it that eveyone with problems Blame Bush for thier lot in life . Gee people do for youirself

I work at a large tech comapny we have Sametime and we are supposed to sign on to it when we get to work, it allows others to see you are online and to IM you if necessary, but it is within out work network. We also get phone calls and constant emails and are required to have a cell phone. Sometimes I have two or three IMs going on, and both phones ringing and then people complaining if I don't answer their email within a half hour. It has gotten ridiculous that we all think we have to be constantly available to everyone. The interruptions are so immense it is hard to get any of my necessaary work done.

This is nothing more that a continuation of the US desire to allow children to be the boss - they are little humans and should be treated the same way as an adult. Well, the problem starts with the adult with 40 years life experience turning over leadership to a child with as little as 6-7 years life experience. Even a teen, 13-19, does not have anywhere near the live experience as the 25+ alleged parent! They allow kids to grow up doing as they dam well please. Then never learn to accept any responsibility, go out in to the real world where mommy and daddy have little to zero control, and don't understand that when you take a job of work, you have to perform if you expect to keep that job and keep getting paid. When this kid spends have the day BSing with buds in Emails and IM's the employer is not getting what he is paying for. A number of years ago I was eating lunch at a mall when a group of teenaged girls sat at the next table. One of them was talking about how at a recent job interview SHE told HR that she could not work this night and that afternoon because it was when her boy friend was off, couldn't work on this evening or this, this, and this morning because she partied was with her friends the night before and needed to sleep in, wouldn't work on this and that day because whatever. She couldn't understand why the she had not been called back, "it's already been three days! If they don't call by this week end, I'm not going to work for them." This is the sorry assed attitude of too many of the kids of today. I think they ought to re-establish some sort of draft. No American should be deprived of the chance to serve their fellow man for at least two years of their lives.

It all boils down to one thing poor management and it trickles down from the top to the bottom. When management has a poor work ethic many employees will take advantage of it and some of the best employees will leave. So the old bible verse holds true “ for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

We just started allowing IM at work at a medical facility that I work at. I don't do it, but from what I have seen as I walk by a computer?
Chatting and not working...

More time is being spent IM, instead of work.

carly justin worth said: I like to talk on a 'landline' to my mother and receive & WRITE a letter. & NO I'm not that old! Just 53. Any one else long for the 'good old days'?
I say, SO DO I. Have you noticed how hard it is to find nice stationary now? I use to write to my now deceased Grandmother in Idaho often.
My husband wants to get RID of our Landline, I keep trying to stall that.
I do text with my daughters, but not often.
Think of how nice and more family related our lives were before Computers, Cell Phones, MP3 players and IPods. Ahh that was the life. :)
Thank God we get another chance, every day that we wake up, to make things better.
Debra

As the radio/TV add used to say...Here I am sitting bored in my cubicle...so it goes. Playing on the ole computer.

Boss should fire...hire illegal....pay "under table".

Most (close to 90%) of what is considered 'communication' theses days (email, IM's, texting) is nothing more than what used to be considered village gossip. It does nothing more than entertain those people who have no control over their lives and have no idea how to obtain it or do not want it - they just want attention. Iyronmyke

Dave, vc, and the rest of you worms, should get off ur own asses and join the sevice, it WILL change ur attitude about young ppl REAL FAST!!! They make up the majority of the armed forces, not old farts like you that make no sense and have no brains to communicate with!!! F' YOU!!! Its probably been awhile, oh wait, you never get it, literally and other-wise, just SHUT UP Ppl like you, ur WORTHLESS!!! Especially, to GOD!!!!