| Another Stupid Survey About Billions In Lost Productivity Misses The Point |
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 Global Secure Systems
and Infosecurity Europe
released the results of a poll
they use to claim the U.K experiences upwards of 6.5 Billion Pounds in lost productivity costs to social networking sites like Myspace, Facebook, and Bebo. A quote...The poll was carried out amongst 776 office workers, who admitted to spending at least 30 minutes a day visiting social networking sites whilst at work, that's a minimum of 10 hours a month which equates to 3 weeks of every year with two respondents who were so hooked that they spend 3 hours visiting these sites everyday!! The end result is potentially billions of pounds in lost productivity maintain GSS, plus the extra demand on bandwidth which is an additional cost to a business in terms of efficiency, maintenance and resources. As is often the case with polls asking a question in a certain manner can almost guarantee the conclusions reached. Also, when the parties involved are both interested in selling U.K. businesses their products and consultancy services you might want to replace that grain of skepticism with a boulder. Any business really concerned about the productivity drain of social networking sites could easily block those sites from their employees with about 30 seconds worth of effort. [ED: We'd be happy to consult with you and show you how :P] But perhaps most smart business managers realize the value of having a diversion or two when working. Stop treating your employees like human beings and believe me, they'll stop acting like them which is a worse thing for productivity. When I worked in corporate america with hundreds of employees directly in my charge a survey like this one would have revealed to me the obvious thing here. That being someone trying to sell me a solution for a problem I didn't really have. It happens all the time. Move on, nothing to see here... Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites           
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