{"id":185,"date":"2007-04-12T23:36:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T13:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2007\/04\/12\/the-internet-and-todays-workplace\/"},"modified":"2007-04-12T23:40:28","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T13:40:28","slug":"the-internet-and-todays-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2007\/04\/12\/the-internet-and-todays-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet and today&#8217;s workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet is considered to be one of the biggest offenders in causing distraction and unproductivity in today's workplace.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\">Reuters<\/a> reported that according to a study, two out of three British web users lose significant portions of their time to irrelevant web browsing.    It was also said that workers confronted with the almost unlimited pool of online information become distracted and begin \"wilfing,\" short for \"What Was I Looking For?\".<\/p>\n<p>\"Although people log on with a purpose, they are now being offered so much choice and online distraction that many forget what they are there for, and spend hours aimlessly wilfing instead\", said Jason Lloyd from price comparison website moneysupermarket.com.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Is the Internet to be blamed for having a large pool of information and resources available readily?  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/web\/aimless-workers-wilfing-the-web\/2007\/04\/11\/1175971144566.html\">Aimless workers 'wilfing' the web<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[tags]workplace, internet, study, news, web surfing[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet is considered to be one of the biggest offenders in causing distraction and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Internet and today&#039;s workplace | Tech Leadership Advice &amp; 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