Map of the global distribution of economic and physical water scarcity as of 2006. Scarcity is the fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human wants in a world of limited resources. It states that society has insufficient productive resources to fulfill all human wants and needs.
The number of people in this yearâs survey who reported wasting time at work every day is up to a whopping 89% -- a 20% increase compared to last year. The increases came in people spending longer periods âwasting time.â Hereâs the breakdown: 31% waste roughly 30 minutes daily. 31% waste roughly 1 hour daily.
You've got way too much mail. Office workers spend an average of 2.6 hours per day reading and answering emails, according to a survey conducted by McKinsey Global Institute. That adds up to about 27 days per year. Employees spend about 28 percent of their day interacting with their email accounts, the most time of any daily activity at the workplace. Searching for and gathering information comes in at a distant second by taking up 1.76 hours a day, or 19 percent of the workday.