Social networking costs firms £130 million a day - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 10th Sep 2007, 14:00

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/09...illion_a_day/1

Workers are costing UK firms over £130 million a day by wasting time on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

steveo_mcg · 10th Sep 2007, 14:11

My work bans very little to be fair, however it does ban most of the photo site making the project logs/ the general forum and the photography forum kinda difficult since i don't get the pictures. I'm not a social type so i don't know about Facebook et al

Mankz · 10th Sep 2007, 14:23

At school you're only allowed Facebook in the top 2 years and Myspace is banned (its full of emo's.) becuase we used to spend far to much time on it.

So now I just use a Proxy instead...

naokaji · 10th Sep 2007, 14:26

does bit-tech count as social network site?

/sarcasm off

honestly...

i've never in my live been to facebook... i dont have a myspace or other such sites account... but i sure spend a lot of time on sites like bit-tech or xtremesystems...

Mankz · 10th Sep 2007, 14:28

Facebook is God!

d3fiant · 10th Sep 2007, 14:31

I work for a large financial company in the UK, we have recently had bandwidth problems and it turned out in the last 30 days facebook is the largest culprit of this, and is some 4 times the next highest offender. We have roughly 12k UK employees and it turns out there is a uk community for our company on facebook with over 5k people, thats nearly half our UK workforce.......its crazy

cjoyce1980 · 10th Sep 2007, 14:34

facebook is homo!

steveo_mcg · 10th Sep 2007, 14:38

Now now, just cause your more anti social than me. No need for names

atanum141 · 10th Sep 2007, 14:59

Do they really think the UK workforce is that productive?

Gimmie a break.

Phil Rhodes · 10th Sep 2007, 15:23

I dunno, it's more email and bit-tech for me.

Don't tell my bo.... oh, bugger, I'm self-employed.

P

cpemma · 10th Sep 2007, 15:25

Before the internet we just talked to each other, face-to-face. Or disappeared into the toilet with a magazine. Your headline would be

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Mother-Goose · 10th Sep 2007, 15:26

I can agree with that, I'd probably say my day isn't complete without a few hours of facebooking, but mainly because I hate my job, I reckon this is the common factor.

Duste · 10th Sep 2007, 15:42

Only those workers that use MySpace should be sacked, the rest should be congratulated for not using a piece of emo-**** website.

aggies11 · 10th Sep 2007, 16:41

If social networking costs that many millions, imagine how much lunches and break time sets them back. We should go ahead and ban those too! Heck, getting up from your desk to go to the bathroom is lost productivity also, so why not chain/tether employees to their desks!

Seriously, a happy employee is a productive one. Many people hate their jobs, and if the internet is how the cope and not blow their brains out, then it's a good thing.

Aggies

RTT · 10th Sep 2007, 16:43

*poke*

Mother-Goose · 10th Sep 2007, 16:51

*Throws sheep at RTT*

yodasarmpit · 10th Sep 2007, 17:24

Most forums and social networking sites are blocked where I work, however, bit-tech is fine

Myspace isn't blocked, but probably because it's part of the Group I work for, not that I actually use it anyway.

Aankhen · 10th Sep 2007, 20:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by cjoyce1980

facebook is homo!

Er… even if it were… so what?

completemadness · 10th Sep 2007, 21:45

I guess you can only claim that this costs businesses money if the emplyees actually worked the time they spend on social networking sites, which, i doubt, they will just waste the time some other way

pendragon · 10th Sep 2007, 21:50

I read technology sites on occasion (i.e. everyday) at work.. I relagate all those social networking sites to home-use however.

10th Sep 2007, 14:00	#1
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Phil Rhodes Supermodder Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 574	I dunno, it's more email and bit-tech for me. Don't tell my bo.... oh, bugger, I'm self-employed. P

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Mother-Goose Tories ftw! Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: England - Surrey Posts: 3,750	I can agree with that, I'd probably say my day isn't complete without a few hours of facebooking, but mainly because I hate my job, I reckon this is the common factor. __________________ Goose Q6600, Striker Extreme, 4GB 6400C4 Dominator DHX, Raptor X, 2x400GB spinpoints, BFG 8800GTX OC, Stacker 830 Evo, HX620, Nova T 500, Freezer 7 Pro

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Duste Sierra my delta, bravo! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: WA, Australia Posts: 812	Only those workers that use MySpace should be sacked, the rest should be congratulated for not using a piece of emo-**** website.

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aggies11 Multimodder Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 171	If social networking costs that many millions, imagine how much lunches and break time sets them back. We should go ahead and ban those too! Heck, getting up from your desk to go to the bathroom is lost productivity also, so why not chain/tether employees to their desks! Seriously, a happy employee is a productive one. Many people hate their jobs, and if the internet is how the cope and not blow their brains out, then it's a good thing. Aggies

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completemadness Hypermodder Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 887	I guess you can only claim that this costs businesses money if the emplyees actually worked the time they spend on social networking sites, which, i doubt, they will just waste the time some other way

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