Employees in offices spend a fair amount of time at work attending to personal tasks on their smart phone or just surfing the Net, according to the OfficeTeam report, Working Hard or Hardly Working?

A survey of 300 office workers and 300 managers by the Menlo Park, Calif.-based temporary staffing company found that employees squander an average of 56 minutes per day, or the equivalent of nearly five hours a week, using their mobile device for non-work activities in the office.

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Katie Kuehner-Hebert

Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.

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