Scientific Blogging can help your career! Well, indirectly.
A study out of Melbourne University in Australia found that workers who surf the internet for fun at work, within a reasonable limit of less than 20 percent of total office time, are about nine percent more productive than non-surfers.
The study of 300 office workers found that 70 percent of people who use the internet at work engage in Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing. "Firms spend millions on software to block their employees from watching videos on YouTube, using social networking sites like Facebook or shopping online under the pretence that it costs millions in lost productivity. However, that's not always the case," says Dr. Brent Coker in the Brisbane Times.
"Short and unobtrusive breaks, such as a quick surf of the internet, enables the mind to rest itself, leading to a higher total net concentration for a day's work, and as a result, increased productivity," Coker says.
I think what Coker is trying to say is that you should sign on to Scientific Blogging every day at work and write a blog or column. It's a win-win - you're more productive, and we get to read more scientific content!
N.B. For those that see the Brisbane Times headline, it does not say "Workplace web bludgeoning..." as I initially thought. "Bludging" is equivalent to surfing, in the context of lounging about surfing on the web. Or so says Google.
Comments
Becky Jungbauer | 04/03/09 | 15:16 PM
Gerhard Adam | 04/03/09 | 15:39 PM
Somehow productivity measurements go out the window when it comes time to "meet the numbers" by the end of the quarter. Somehow, keeping a less experienced, less productive, lower paid employee seems to win out every time - for the sake of saving a few dollars an hour.
Kimberly Crandell | 04/03/09 | 15:59 PM
that's way too much logic for big companies to grasp
That made me laugh, Kimberly.
A corporation is a legal person
age <= 9
and one slice short of the full sandwich.
Patrick Lockerby | 04/03/09 | 16:23 PM
Gerhard Adam | 04/03/09 | 16:03 PM
Thanks for catching the double post
No problemo, Becky!
Gerhard: when economic productivity is measured only by inputs and outputs, then as a grammar school educated programmer would say:
quisquiliarum init, exit quisquiliarum.
Atque memento, nulli adsunt Romanorum qui locutionem tuam corrigant. :)
I am confident that soemone else will post the translations, so I'll skip that part and
duck and run. :)
Patrick Lockerby | 04/03/09 | 16:16 PM
Gerhard Adam | 04/03/09 | 16:30 PM
quisquiliarum init, exit quisquiliarum.
is equivalent to GIGO ....
Gerhard Adam | 04/03/09 | 16:31 PM
Si hoc legere scis, nimium eruditionis habes
which is what it says on my desktop wallpaper. :)
quisquiliarum init, exit quisquiliarum.
is equivalent to GIGO ....
Too right, bro, I diss you not.
Atque memento, nulli adsunt Romanorum qui locutionem tuam corrigant
like wot I said.
Patrick Lockerby | 04/03/09 | 16:35 PM
I need to get a t-shirt that says that ....
which one? GIGO, education or pronunciation? Why not all three? :)
Personally, I'd love one with the Latin GIGO on it -
or one that says "You are never too old to be a geek!"
Patrick Lockerby | 04/03/09 | 16:49 PM
Becky Jungbauer | 04/03/09 | 18:06 PM
Atque memento, nulli adsunt Romanorum qui locutionem tuam corrigant
But remember, there are no Romans here to correct your pronunciation.
Huc accedit Zambonis!
Here come the Zambonis!
Patrick Lockerby | 04/03/09 | 18:32 PM
Gerhard Adam | 04/03/09 | 17:18 PM
and
Hank Campbell | 04/03/09 | 17:37 PM
We do have 2 new shirt and mug designs this week, so if one of you
comes up with something outrageously clever for your new ones we'll
make those too.
B b b but I thought we just did?
subucula mea
Patrick Lockerby | 04/03/09 | 18:07 PM
Becky Jungbauer | 04/03/09 | 18:16 PM
On two occasions I have been asked,—"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" [...] I am not able rightly to comprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question
Charles Babbage
Gerhard Adam | 04/03/09 | 17:38 PM
That a country, eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest departments of that knowledge on whose more elementary truths its wealth and rank depend, is a fact which is well deserving the attention of those who shall inquire into the causes that influence the progress of nations.
Charles Babbage - polymath.
Economist, mathematician, cryptologist and an early observer of noise pollution.
Economist
promoter of science education
cryptologist
early observer of noise pollution.
Patrick Lockerby | 04/03/09 | 17:53 PM
if one of you comes up with something outrageously clever
Re: shirt and mug slogan - how's this?
Oil and pterology don't mix
Patrick Lockerby | 04/04/09 | 10:00 AM
For me, being retired, it's the other way round:
A quick coffee break leads to higher total internet
concentration!
Becky: you have accidentally copied this blog. This is copy 1.