A few months ago a study released by Ohio State University showed that college students who use Facebook spend less time studying and have lower grades than students who don’t use the popular social networking site. Now is time for another study, conducted by Nucleus Research, to show that Facebook also affects employees’ productivity at work.
In order to explore the business productivity impact of Facebook, 237 randomly selected workers have been interviewed about their use of Facebook. The results showed that 77% of employees have a Facebook account and 61% of these use this service during work-time. The average time spend on Facebook is 15 minutes some of employees spending up to 2 hours on the social networking site.
As for the reason they stated for using Facebook, Continue reading ‘Studies revealed that Facebook is a productivity killer’
For most of us summer means mountains, sea and sunshine, in one word …vacation. Most companies reduce their activity due to the fact that their employees are taking these well deserved breaks. But as all good things come to an end so it happens with our vacation. And after two weeks (more or less) of sleep and rest when we turn to our offices we feel like being in another world.
Hundreds of e-mails flooding the inbox and important things that remained unsolved for over a week are now your priority. But how can we handle with all these when your colleagues are asking you to share your experience from the vacation and to share photos? So here are some steps you have to follow in order to refocus on your work and to increase your productivity at maximum.
- Analyze the week. Take a quick view of all the events and activities that took place while you were on vacation and which one must happen in a very short time and cannot be delayed. Try to integrate one important activity per day.
- Organize the day. You must have a plan for each day and well organized work sessions. Take small breaks after every task finished. In the morning, it’s better to deal with the e-mails and only after that to get on other projects. As I said in first paragraph, schedule one important activity per day and other secondary activities. Continue reading ‘How to refocus on work after vacation’
When employees are slow to change or even refuse the change, it costs your company money. Adapting to change is crucial. Change is a very common issue that managers have in mind all the time and furthermore during the economic situation we currently face.
Is your workforce able to adapt to change and increase their effectiveness on the job?
This question was the starting point for a survey conducted by Right Management on more than 100 senior human resource professionals across North America.
The poll results showed that:
We have been writing lately about employees’ non-work related activities which cost company money due to reduced employee productivity. We have seen interesting results of studies about employees wasting time at work and we have also analyzed the reasons employee waste precious work time.
Studies revealed that significant work time is wasted for non-work related activities, but, the next question that came into my mind is: what about the remaining time? Do the employees use it properly? Well, it seems that many employees are not as productive as they should be. Even if the remaining work time is supposed to be used as efficiently as possible, unfortunately this does not happen. A survey conducted by Salary.com revealed that the majority of respondents - 75% - feel that some office related activities cut into productive time at work. Let’s take a closer look at the top 5 work-related distracters: Continue reading ‘Work related activities can also lead to reduced productivity’
The Backup-Restore Utility is to be used in order to save filter settings ( active / inactive filters, excluded users / groups, passwords ) when uninstalling the current product version and installing the new product version.
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There are actually two servers deployed with Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy.
The proxy server module application provides features corresponding to web request ( Web Sites, Files & Extensions, Web Objects filters provided ) / web response ( Keywords & Profiles filter provided ) filtering.
Continue reading ‘Why duplicate users are displayed with Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy reports’
There are actually two servers deployed with Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy. The first server represents the proxy server included with Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy providing request filtering / traffic logging features. The second server included with Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy enhances the logging feature, providing user-oriented reports.
Continue reading ‘How to display user name and computer name with Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy reports’
In order to access Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy within remote clients please set the client browser proxy settings ( Install Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy – Configure client browser proxy settings ).
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Please follow the schema bellow in order to Install Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy
1. Download Cyclope Internet Filtering Proxy setup
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Wasting time at work seems to continue to be a huge problem for companies all over the word. A study conducted over the American workers revealed that Americans still waste approximately 2 hours from their work time each day. The first question that came into my mind was why are they doing this, especially at these times. Now, when the companies’ focus must be on increasing productivity, why do the employees still waste precious time?
In order to solve this problem and to provide solutions for managers to stop employees from wasting time at work, first we have to determine the causes that lead to this issue. We will consider, in this respect the results of the above mentioned survey conducted by Salary.com. They have surveyed 2500 employees from all job levels and their findings were:
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