Byline: Velina Nacheva
Aug. 21--KUWAIT -- Are you a slacker? If so, then keep reading. Although Kuwait's Labour Code defines a full time workday as eight hours, many employees in Kuwait agree that they don't work more than five hours during an eight-hour workday. The phenomenon of "being paid to waste time" is not restricted to Kuwait. A joint America Online-Salary.com survey revealed that the average worker admits to frittering away 2.09 hours of an eight-hour workday. That 2.09 hours doesn't include lunch and other scheduled breaks. In Kuwait, however, most quizzed confessed that they don't work for more than five hours of an eight hour workday, especially during the ...