Study: 'Leisure browsing' increases productivity

A study conducted in Australia found that people who engage in "Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing" are more productive than those who don't. Workers who "surf the Internet for fun at work--within a reasonable limit of less than 20 percent of their total time in the office--are more productive by about 9 percent," according to the study's author, Professor Brent Coker, from the University of Melbourne's Department of Management and Marketing.

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