2.3 million jobs lost to blogging.

By Barry Bell on October 27 2005 12:25 am (1 comment)

I read a story at Ad Age(registration required) today that made me laugh. Apparently, “U.S. workers in 2005 will waste the equivalent of 551,000 years reading blogs”.

Or, how about this: “Time spent in the office on non-work blogs this year will take up the equivalent of 2.3 million jobs”

Or this: “blog readers essentially take a daily 40-minute blog break.”

And that’s just reading blogs. How much time is ahem… ‘wasted’ each year by people writing the damn things?

That’s what I’d like to know.


Barry Bell is a Freelance Copywriter and Recruitment Communications Specialist based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
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  1. By Lei
    October 27, 2005 @ 11:08 am...

    Are you telling me I’m wasting my time?! :P

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