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Sometimes youre at work and you just have to watch that one cute cat-/dog-/panda-playing-in-the-snow video. And then you spot that girl from high school on your Facebook feed and wonder what shes been up to all these yearsWould you look at that? Its lunchtime! Time to skip out of work and wait in an obnoxiously long cafeteria line with your co-workers and dissect that cute animal video you just saw. 在工作中有时我们会在网上偷懒去看看小动物嬉戏打闹的有趣视频，有时Facebook上跳出提示让你去看看高中时候的那位女同学现在怎么样了，你会看吗？午餐时间到了，是时候停下手头工作去排那个糟心的午餐长队了，顺便和同事们聊聊刚才看的小动物视频。 But exactly how much time are we wasting at work? Thats what a group of economistsMichael Burda, Kaie Genadek, and Daniel Hamermershwanted to find out, and theyve published their results in a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper.但工作中你到底会浪费多少时间呢？这正是Michael Burda，Kaie Genadek和Daniel Hamermersh这些经济学家们想知道的，他们已经把结论在发布在新一期的国家经济研究局刊物上了。 Using the self-reported American Time Use Survey, the economists found that, on average, workers spent about 34 minutes per day not working. Doesnt seem a lot, right? But when the economists got rid of the people who claimed they didnt spend any time slacking off (uh-huh, right), the figure rose to 50 minutes. About half that time wasted was spent on eating, the other half on leisure activities (watercooler break!).通过美国人时间利用自我报告调查数据，经济学家发现人均每天有34分钟时间不花在工作上。看上去并不多，是吗？但是当经济学家把那些自称没有偷懒的人排除后，结论变成了50分钟，其中一半花费在吃上面，另一半则是在休闲活动上（例如饮水休息）。 | 
