Wednesday, November 07, 2007

An academic study of work at the workplace


"Our findings are astounding: By simply sitting down and doing work, employees can dramatically increase their output of goods and services," said Deputy Undersecretary of Labor Charlotte Ponticelli, who authored the report. "In fact, 'working' may revolutionize the way people work."

Perhaps even more shocking, the study reveals that not working significantly decreases worker productivity, sometimes even resulting in no work getting done at all. Similar findings were reported in the areas of avoiding work, putting off work, complaining about work instead of actually working, pretending to work, and fucking around.

"Fucking around is in fact detrimental to the work process," the study reads in part.

Source: The Onion, of course!

1 Comments:

  1. Tabula Rasa said...

    "Fucking around is in fact detrimental to the work process," the study reads in part.

    depends on the industry, no?