Do remote workers really work all day? No. This is what they do instead.

What do remote and hybrid workers do all day?

They often brag about how productive they are because they don’t have gossiping coworkers to distract them or because they don’t waste time on long commutes.

But a new study offers new insights into how remote workers are really spending their time. Spoiler alert: It’s not all white papers and PowerPoint presentations.

While employees in the office kill time by texting friends or browsing TikTok, remote workers take advantage of the opportunity to complete their own to-do lists or simply hang out.

Nearly half of remote workers find themselves multitasking while taking work calls or performing household tasks, such as unloading the dishwasher or doing laundry, according to a SurveyMonkey survey of 3,117 full-time U.S. employees.

A third uses the flexibility of working from home to do their shopping, for example to the supermarket or the dry cleaners.

Sleeping at work? It happens more often than you might think. One in five home workers admitted to taking a nap.

About 17% of remote workers said they were working from a different location without telling anyone, or were watching TV or playing video games. A small percentage – 4% – admitted to working another job.

Multitasking during Zoom calls is another common activity.

Nearly a third of remote and hybrid workers said they went to the bathroom during phone calls, while 21% said they surfed social media, 14% went online shopping, 12% did laundry and 9% cleaned the kitchen.

In a finding that may surprise some, 4% admit to falling asleep and 3% take a shower.

“Employees make up their own rules to meet the demands of high-pressure work environments,” says Wendy Smith, senior manager of research science at SurveyMonkey. “One thing we found is that what you might call ‘off-the-books behavior’ is widespread.”

And it’s not just regular folks. More than half of managers and 49 percent of executives also multitask during work conversations, Smith said.

When asked if they had ever browsed social media during a video or conference call at work, managers, supervisors and individual contributors were about equal (22%, 20% and 21%).

However, according to Smith, managers and executives made more online purchases than individual employees (16% and 14% compared to 12% of individual employees).

Different generations also have different work habits:

• 26% of millennials admit to napping during the workday, compared to 16% of Gen Xers;

• 18% of GenZ have had another job, compared to 2% of GenX and 1% of baby boomers;

• and 31% of GenZ have worked off-site without telling anyone, compared to 16% of GenX.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Are Remote Workers Actually Working? Yes, But They Also Shop and Shower