Annoying...*

Employers aren't really sure what you're doing at work, but they're pretty sure you're not working enough.

Ask some companies why we're so unproductive, and they'll probably have a survey to identify the problem and a product to fix it. For a company that makes sound management equipment, too much noise is to blame. For information management company, we all suffer from crippling information overload. For ethics training company, we're distracted by frequent ethical lapses.

Shopping for a mail-order bride, drinking vodka, watching Netflix, Sports, or attempt to control others, sabotaging another employee's car tires and sending "inappropriate pictures" to other employees.  Many consider these interactions are the most cause of waste of time, 75 % of all time wasted is the Internet, Meetings, annoying coworkers.

Managers blamed such unproductive behavior for lower work quality, low morale and revenue losses. Nearly three in four employers had put into place new policies to curb productivity killers, including blocking certain websites and banning personal cell phone use.  

Some of the results, like Internet browsing, line up with what managers said, but others, like "dealing with annoying bosses," didn't show up in the managers' reports.

Employees don't seem to think they spent quite as much time gossiping or texting as their managers seem to imagine and managers likely didn't view their interactions with employees as time wasters.

Using scheduled break times,  scheduled "play" breaks or short walks to increase productivity. This may not do away with unnecessary meetings or keep a co-worker from slashing your tires, but it's a good start.