Facebook costs employers over £30 billion per year
| Date Added: Wed September 19 2007 |
Facebook abuse by workers is costing UK companies a staggering £132 million a day.
The research by Peninsula, the employment law firm, finds that 233 million hours are lost each month due to workers wasting employers’ time on social networking sites such as Facebook.
“Why should employers allow their workers to waste 2 hours a day on Facebook when they are being paid to do a job?” said Mike Huss, Employment Law Director at Peninsula.
“The figures that we have calculated are minimums and it’s a problem that I foresee will escalate. Some companies are happy to let their workers use the internet for personal use, assuming that goals and targets are achieved. However loss of productivity through social networks such as Facebook is proving to be a major headache and my advice would be for companies to block access.”
“Continued misuse of the internet by an employee is a situation when disciplining and sacking a worker is acceptable. Sites such as Facebook will only get more popular as time goes by and so I anticipate productivity will suffer as a consequence” said Mr Huss. |
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