Facebook at work?

Watch out! Are you spending time on Facebook.com during work-time? Then be careful in most cases this is not allowed and can have bad consequences for you. A new calculation based on figures from 65 institutes, in the UK, including government departments, police and local councils, that this costs everyday an estimated amount 130million pounds in productivity, which are lost because of Facebook. A lot of employers showing a lack of understanding for this behaviour, which I can understand. In the last three years over 1,700 public employees have been fired as a consequence for the misuising of the Internet.

A popular case in the blog scene was a person called charlie, who worked for the investment bank Goldman Sachs, he spend an 500 hours in the last six month on Facebook. This is about 4 hours a day!!! What I can’t understand is, what do you want to do 4 hours a day on Facebook? It is getting worse, Charlie got a warning from his employer to stop going on Facebook during work-time. He ignored the warning and posted it on Facebook, mentioning that he is more afraid of losing Facebook than his job. This is crazy, isn’t it? More about his case on Techcrunch.com

More about Facebook at work and the consequences here on Spiegel International.