Reading this is wasting time!
Sooner or later, someone was bound to give it a name. Its official description is “irrelevant web browsing”, but it really is “wilfing” – and people are wasting two days a month at work doing it.
At least that’s the word from a new poll by YouGov, a British polling firm. After extrapolating results of a survey of more than 2400 adults, it determined that two-thirds of the country’s 33.7 million internet users waste time surfing online at work and at home. And a quarter of those time-wasters spend as much as 33 per cent of their time doing it – just as Australians do.
Those aged 25 and under were three times as likely to wilf away the hours as those over 55. Wilf stands for “What was I looking for?”
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