Work, the Wasted Years
economist.com
economist.com
the researchers identify the number of minutes that people waste on pointless activities each working day [...] then extrapolate these figures to come up with a “weighted total futility” (wtf) lifetime estimate of time
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Correcting typos takes up an average of 20 minutes in every white-collar worker’s day, the equivalent of 180 days, or half a year, over a 45-year career
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Shakespeare wrote “King Lear” in the time an average office worker spends changing font sizes during their career. --
I'd love to work in an office where the average worker was as talented as Shakespeare. I'd even come in 5 days a week.