Social networking now costing U.K billions

Social media is becoming a part of our lives, but did any thought about the loss of productivity ? In view of getting an impact of social media, a British Job site MyJobGroup.co.uk had a poll on social media, this includes media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace.

The poll shows that many small businesses and British companies are at potential loss in productivity, out of 1,000 British workers polled, 6 percent admitted to spending an hour or more of the work day visiting social media sites.

Our results clearly show that UK workers are spending increased time whilst at work on social media networks, which, left unchecked, could have negative repercussions on the productivity of many companies across the country

said Managing Director of Myjobgroup.co.uk Lee Fayer.

What about the Net Impact? as an estimate Britain could lose up to 14 billion pounds, or equivalent to $22.26 US dollars loss.

Using services such as accessing friend feeds, tweets, posting photos and videos, and uploading comments and pictures to social media sites contributes to productivity loss.

Overdoing such things may also lead to severe loss, there should be a social responsibility towards the organization to which they represent.

Before any strict regulation imposed by organization, people should understand this fact and give the priority to their tasks.

Do write your opinion on what do you think about the social responsibility.

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Infosys to make policy for Social media

Infosys, One of the popular India's software company, plans to roll out a new policy listing the do's and dont's for their employees. The occurrence of such policy is due to many employees  presence in major social networking sites. Considering this fact the Senior Vice-President an Global Head, Human Resources (Infy), Nandita Gurjar quoted today.

We plan to roll out a social media policy shortly

It would be a policy akin to a code of conduct of the company and which employees would have to adhere to. Such a policy is prevalent outside India

The policy would mainly enlist do's and don't about revealing projects or client engagements,

The employees were free to air opinions but not to pass personal comments," she said agreeing there was a thin line between the two. Those breaching the policy once implemented would face disciplinary action, including warning and in worst cases termination from services

It was reported that some employees were found discussing projects and clients details on the networking sites, which of course is a breach of confidentiality, the aim for this policy is to stop such things and make the employees accountable for their comments on social websites.

Passing comments on any person in organization is also prohibited. The policy is expected ready and will soon be published in coming month.

The company also has dedicated pages to make the information common to all the employees about the various notification.

Recently during the bandh, we let employees know that they would be closed for the day through the social networking site,she said.

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Would this step from infosys enforce other companies to follow the same path. Do write down your opinion