lol omg I am soooo bad @ this! Honestly, my gf and I chat all day on msn and my S.I.L. and I email back and forth all day! lol

probably 20-30 minutes of every hour

hahaha omg skigirl me too! half the day is spent working (4h) and half is spent solicilzing secretly (4h)

When you drive a bus for 10 to 11 hours straight with no lunch and no breaks off the bus - it's really hard to waste your employer's time.

Unless they count all the time I spend daydreaming and fantasizing that I am somewhere else. Until they can affix a brain activity monitor to me my mind shall continue to wander and think of a better place while working.

All the time. Close on 95% of my day. Our project is on hold and we are just waiting to hear if it is cancelled (aka we all loose our jobs). So theres no work, just waiting

Lol, likewise, skigirl. Hey, if you get the job done within deadline, it's not a problem. Haha!

I spend about 2 hours of my work day off task. However, I get to work about an hour early so that I can get actual work done - I leave home early to beat the horrific traffic.

I've always figured that at any job I've had about half the day actually was productive and the rest was waiting around entertaining myself until I could get busy again: that's been in office assistant jobs, newsrooms and bank telling.

I work as an operations rep at a bank, and we have to report how many pieces of work we get through a day, so there is practically no way to piddle around. I might be able to get about 30 minutes of dawdling with bathroom breaks, break room trips for tea/coffee, and occasionally extending my 15 minute breaks to 20.

Um, we're usually so busy that if I get 5 minutes during the day to pee I'm lucky. Seriously, I'm on the go setting up cultures, reading plates, doing other random lab chores, and trying to fix the doctors' mistakes in the computer for a solid 8 hours. Some days I'm lucky and I get a quick 5-10 minutes here and there to check email or call my husband real quick, but those days are very rare.

Ugh. I have too much free time. It sucks. I don't even know why they hired me.

I work with 560 kids every day - I can't remember a day when I've had 5 minutes alone.

If I am really busy- hardly any. But on days where I really don't have a lot of work- probably every 20-30 minutes on the hour. Yikes!

Well at my old job we would estimate our projects based on 6 hour work days because it we rationalized that 2 hours of our day, on average, gets used up by talking, meeting or other distractions.

I think in any office job you'll have a lot of time when you're not working on something work-related.

I felt guilty about it until I saw that my boss shops online and checks out the newest fashions online all the time.

As long as I get my work done well and meet all my deadlines, it's fine.

Lately quite a bit...with the economy and all...

Errr a lot. But to be honest, it's mainly because my job is super inconsistant - I'll have days with literally NOTHING to do. But when I do have things to do, I'll spend 100% of my time doing work and will do extra hours to get things done by the deadline. So I don't have any prob. with sometimes not doing any work hehe!

I spread out the fun, but likely only do 3 solid hours of real work.

I spend a good four hours entertaining myself. I work hard but I work in an inbound call office so the public kinda dictates my schedule.

Ok, so I essentially have 2 jobs, one that pays the bills and one I love... The one I pay the bills with, I probably spend 1/2-2/3 of my time doing non work related stuff..! I work much better at my home-job; I'm rarely off task for that! In fact, I find myself often at my paying job dreaming up/planning for what I can do when I get home to my second job!

I spend typically 5 minutes each day wasting time and about 5 minutes for restroom breaks. I like to finish my work right away. After that I have all the free time in the world! (not really I still have more work after that)

lol, I love this question! My husband and I were just talking about this b/c we both work from home and we both think we work more now then we ever did when we worked in an office.

I remember actually working only about 4 hours a day, the rest of the time all of us girls would gossip, get coffee, make runs up to Sonic for slushies or just surf online.

Now we probably actually work 10 hours a day. But it is spread out throughout the entire day. Like a few hours in the morning a few hours for lunch then another 3 or 4 hours and then dinner and then usually we really hit the grindstone from about 8pm to 12:30am. so at the end of the day we have worked about 10 or 12 hours.

If I am in the office I work between 2 and 4 hrs a day. If i am at home or at quiet coffee shop I work non-stop. I cant work well at work. Its distracting. I tend to surf, blog, and chat a lot. But my job does require me to surf and research online all day, so it is easy to get distracted with ads and start shopping online when I see a GAP ad or something...damn google ads...