Wasting time at work

If you're not working frantically throughout the workday, you're hardly alone:

The average American worker admits to wasting 2.09 hours per day at work, not counting lunch. So says a recent Web survey by America Online and Salary.com.

While most human-resource managers expect the average employee to waste about an hour a day, the results of this survey were startling. These 2.09 hours per person per day add up to $759 billion in salaries.

The No. 1 reason cited for lack of productivity: not having enough work to do.