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"Aside from the time you purposefully waste at work \u2014 checking Facebook or playing Draw Something, as the kids do \u2014 there's a lot of other stuff that can slow you down at the office. The productivity of a \"knowledge worker\" (read: non-farmer) hinges on communication and the ability to locate information quickly.\nVoIP communications company Fonality conducted a survey to find out which mundane office tasks suck the most time out of the day. Pinpointing and compiling all those wasted man hours could save companies some substantial coin. The folks at social performance management tool Rypple compiled the infographic below based on that data.\nThe top time stealer? Trying to contact customers or colleagues. Duplicate or unwanted information (including spam) ranks highly as well.\n\n\nSEE ALSO: The Internet Is Ruining Your Brain [INFOGRAPHIC]\n\nThe study also proposes that \"unified communications\" (UC) solutions can reduce much of this waste, though it's difficult to determine by how much. \n\"Calculating the potential cost savings for a UC implementation is an inexact science at best. Each company has different needs. And UC implementations do not consist of an exact set of components,\" the report reads.\nStill, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that cloud computing is one way to mitigate certain time sucks. What factors waste your precious time at work? Can they be overcome with better technology? Let us know in the comments.\n\n\n\n\nThumbnail courtesy of iStockphoto, daneger"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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