- One percent of U.S. employers allow employees to take naps during working hours.
- People in the U.S. spend at least 1896 hours per year at work.
- Women business owners employ 35% more people than all the Fortune 500 companies combined.
- No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
- During thinking, we only use about 35% of our brains.
- A typist’s fingers travel 12.6 miles during an average workday.
- More American workers (18%) call out sick on Friday than any other day of the week.
- Tuesday has the lowest percent of absenteeism for American workers 11%.
- Difficulty focusing on the computer screen, short-term memory problems and trouble with basic math can be caused by a mere 2% drop in body water. Remember to stay hydrated during work hours.
- More people walk to work in Alaska than any other U.S. state.
- Americans now spend more than 100 hours a year commuting to work.
- More than 50% of lost work days are stress related, keeping approximately 1 million people home from work every day.
- The average office worker spends 50 minutes a day looking for lost files and other items.
- The United States has the fourth largest workforce in the world, at 154.2 million (does not include those who are unemployed).
- Forty percent of worker turnover is due to job stress.
- Remember to always take notes during meetings, as the brain retains less than 5% of what is said.
- Each person owns at least eight distinctive intelligences (Musical, Bodily-Kinesthetic, Naturalistic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Verbal-Linguistic , Logical-Mathematical, Spatial), and these are further developed whenever used at work.
- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
- Refrigerating rubber bands makes them last longer.
- Eighty percent of jobs are gained through networking.
- Sixty-six percent of full-time workers in the U.S. say they are heavy drinkers (consuming five or more drinks per sitting at least five days per month), while only 4.9% of part-time workers in the U.S. say they are heavy drinkers.
- People spend one in every four and a half minutes online on social networks and blogs.