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A new survey of Americans’ workplace spending habits shows we’re dropping an awful lot on incidentals like coffee and restaurant lunches every year — $3,000 per person, on average.

Expense reports usually have the standard boring stuff — hotel rooms, gas, cab fares, client dinners and the like. But Robert Half Management Resources has evidence of creativity within the work force.

In a study that anyone who works in an office will heartily embrace, researchers found that spending small parts of the day wasting time on the Internet makes workers more productive because it acts to mentally refresh them. “Browsing the Internet serves an important restorative function,” concludes the report from the National University of Singapore.

For quite sometime, we have heard that Americans are lazy, and aren't hard workers. Well, we may now have proof that we, Americans, are not as productive while on the job as we should be. According to the 2010 American Time Use Survey, says that Americans are working less and relaxing more.

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, most guys are planning what to get their significant other. While it is always a really good idea to send your lover flowers or chocolates to their work place, there are some items you should NOT send to them while on the job.

While many of stress over work or school details, did you know that there may be another form of stress even more damaging?