When people say they work 40 hours a week, are they really working 40 hours—or are they spending a lot of that time waiting on colleagues to respond to emails, chatting with coworkers, and wasting ...

Just because you aren't actively working on something doesn't mean you can't be productive. Personal finance blog The Simple Dollar points out that there are two types of free time: leisure time, ...

What’s your guess as to how much the building and construction industry contributes to global carbon emissions? 5%? 10%? 20%? According to the 2019 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction, ...

Idle time refers to time when employees and machines are unproductive instead of performing scheduled tasks. The term also refers to time that powered-on computers go unused. Employers and managers ...

A new study on the downside of idle time in the workplace found that when employees anticipate down time at the end of a task, their work speed slows and the time to complete the task lengthens.

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Trucking trips originating around the country’s busiest ports are showing massive increases in idle time, another sign of the supply ...

In the first part of the study, researchers left people alone without distractions for 10 minutes They found that creative people were actually less bored and talked more Those who self-reported ...

Trucking trips originating around the U.S.’s busiest ports are showing massive increases in idle time, another sign of the supply-chain logjams plaguing American transport hubs. From the start of 2018 ...