Twitter & Instagram | Some remote workers spend TWO hours a day on social media

One in five workers spend an average of two hours out of the working day browsing social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, a new survey of over 2,000 British workers has found, as was reported by The Sun.

The data, which was collated by Digital ID, alleged that 17% of staff admitted to spending up to one-quarter of the average working day browsing the platforms, whilst 34% spend more than an hour per day logged onto non-work-related websites.

In addition to these surprising statistics, nearly half, or 43%, admitted that at least 30 minutes out of the working day was spent browsing social media, with just six per cent saying that they stay away from the sites whilst ‘on the clock’.

Outside of specific platforms like Facebook and Twitter, the average worker polled in the study admitted to wasting around 45 minutes per day on ‘non-work-related activities’ – the equivalent of three hours and 45 minutes per week, per person.