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Quote:...US workers would waste the equivalent of 551,000 years during 2005 reading blogs, online web diaries and gossip sheets

Around 35 million workers -- one in four of the labour force in the United States -- spend three-and-a-half hours, or nine percent of their working week on blogs

The AdAge survey mirrors a poll conducted by America Online and Salary.com in July, which found that American workers were goofing off for two hours a day on the Internet, costing their employers 759 billion dollars a year.

full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051027/tc_...leinternet
The figures are lower than I expected them to be.