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Yeah, very bizarre. She's claiming that the average American works spends 23 minutes a day on smoke breaks, and 26 minutes a day looking for a new job, and 17 minutes a day "preparing hot drinks", etc. Something is completely bogus here.

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> 17 minutes a day "preparing hot drinks"

This figure I can believe.

As can I. As with the smoke breaks, it becomes a water cooler moment - a socially acceptable time to talk with colleagues about personal lives and the occasional work-related meeting.

One possible explanation for this is that people are supposedly spending time doing certain things, but in reality are doing different for things. For example, my mom used to talk about how people at her work were allowed smoke breaks, but no equivalent breaks were allotted to non-smokers, so people would pretend to smoke just to take a few minutes off.

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