U.S. workers admit to spending an average of about 2.5 hours to 5 hours per week on personal business while "at work."
Researchers at a unit of CIGNA Corp., Philadelphia, have published that figure in a summary of results from a telephone survey of 1,149 part-time or full-time employed individuals 18 years of age or older who live in private households.
Only 46% of the participants said they were absent from work at least once in the past 6 months, but 61% said they had reported for duty while they were sick or coping with family and personal matters, the researchers report.
