<p>Jive employees in a meeting Your coworkers are driving you to distraction. So is sifting through a ton of unnecessary email making sure you didn't miss something important, according to a survey of 2,000 folks by Jive Software.</p><p>On average, U.S. workers spend 16 percent of their workday checking irrelevant email, the study finds.That's a little over an hour a day for an 8-hour day. And some people have it much worse. 18 percent said that they spend a quarter of their workday, about two hours, checking useless emails.</p><p>Jive calculates that these emails are costing the American economy $2 billion per day in lost productivity.</p><p>When people weren't reading email from colleagues, they were yapping with them. Some 36 percent said coworkers are their biggest distraction at work, a bigger distraction even than unwanted email.</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/coworkers-are-the-biggest-distraction-2013-3">Keep reading...</a></p>