A study finds Facebook affecting the productivity of Indian Firms
In a survey, by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham), it has been noticed that the social networking site Facebook has become a headache for the employers at the offices in India, as the employees spend a substantial part of the office timing on the social networking sites. This has badly hit the productivity of these firms.
ASSOCHAM has found in its survey that office employees spend one hour on the social networking sites like facebook, which has resulted a loss of 12.5% in the productivity. The employees have been reported to use the sites like Orkut, Facebook, Myspace and Linkedin for romancing.
The study reached the results after interviewing a total of 4000 employees, which were in the age group 21 -60 across the different cities in India including the cities like Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Surat, Mumbai, Pune, Chandigarh, Lucknow and Kanpur.
The secretary general of the ASSOCHAM, Mr. D S Rawat said, "As a matter of fact, the growing use of browsing sites can be dangerous for overall productivity and IT companies have already installed software to restrict its use."
The survey further revealed that 50 percent of the employees particularly access Facebook during the work time and four out of every 10 employees come to know about these social networking sites at office, while 83 percent of the employees said that they don't see any harm in using these sites at work.
However, 40% employees informed that they are permitted to surf the social networking sites at work by the employers.