Some month ago, researchers said that allowing social networking (used with moderation) at work could increase productivity. It seems that this study did not impressed managers too much because there was an increasing number of companies that blocked access to social networks.
Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing firm conducted a study revealing that:
With all the latest studies revealing that Facebook is a productivity killer or that employees get fired because of Facebook, now its time for a study related to the employers usage of social networking sites. Last year, 22% of employers reported that they were using social networking sites to research their job candidates, and now, the number increased to 45%. These are the findings of a CareerBuilder survey conducted on June 2009 on more than 2,600 hiring managers.
For checking the background and the online activity of job candidates, 29% of employers use Facebook, 26% use LinkedIn and 21% use MySpace. As for the top industries most likely to screen job candidates via social networking sites we can find the IT companies (63%) and Professional & Business Services companies (53%).
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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’
8% of US companies fired employees because of Facebook
A few days ago I was informing you about studies that revealed that Facebook is a productivity killer. It seems that this has been closely monitored by many managers lately, because now it’s time for another study to show that Facebook is also a reason for firing employees. There is no wonder, since numbers shown that 87% of employees using the social networking site at work couldn’t define a clear business reason for using it.
Proofpoint Survey says that 17 percent of companies have issues with employee’s use of social media. Furthermore, 8% of companies reported that they have dismissed employees because of their behavior on sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. An alarming thing is Continue reading ‘8% of US companies fired employees because of Facebook’