Office workers productive for less than three hours a day

British office workers spend just 2 hours and 53 minutes a day productively, often preferring to spend their time on social media, trawling news websites and chatting with colleagues, alarming new research has found.

The study by www.vouchercloud.com revealed that time spent in the office does not necessarily translate to productivity, with 79% of the survey’s 1,989 participants admitting that they were not productive throughout the day. Just a 21% believed that they were; and on average respondents believed that they did a meagre 2 hours and 53 minutes of actual work.

The survey respondents, who were all over 18 and full-time office workers, revealed that the most common procrastination activity is social media, with 47% admitting that they spent their time checking their accounts. On average, this amounted to 44 minutes of the working day.