Does Facebook Make Workers Less Productive?
Posted by: Rachael King on July 22, 2009 About 77% of employees have Facebook accounts and nearly two-thirds access the site during work hours, according to a new report from Nucleus Research. The survey of 237 randomly-selected office workers found that employees used Facebook at work for an average of 15 minutes per day. That adds up to nearly 1.5% of total lost productivity across the entire employee population. Is this an example of employees simply wasting time on the job or is something else at work here? I would hazard to guess that there’s a correlation between employee use of social networking sites and the ever-shrinking lunch break. Try to remember, if you can, the ’90s when people routinely left the office for an hour at lunch. If it seems like a distant memory, you’re not alone. In a September 2008 poll developed by staffing service firm OfficeTeam, 150 randomly-selected senior executives at the 1,000 largest companies in the U.S. said that the average lunch break is just
