Facebook, YouTube at work make better employees: study

[justin08]

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MELBOURNE (Reuters Life!) – Caught Twittering or on Facebook at work? It'll make you a better employee, according to an Australian study that shows surfing the Internet for fun during office hours increases productivity.

The University of Melbourne study showed that people who use the Internet for personal reasons at work are about 9 percent more productive that those who do not.

Study author Brent Coker, from the department of management and marketing, said "workplace Internet leisure browsing," or WILB, helped to sharpened workers' concentration.

"People need to zone out for a bit to get back their concentration," Coker said on the university's website (Home page of the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

"Short and unobtrusive breaks, such as a quick surf of the Internet, enables the mind to rest itself, leading to a higher total net concentration for a days' work, and as a result, increased productivity," he said.

According to the study of 300 workers, 70 percent of people who use the Internet at work engage in WILB.

Among the most popular WILB activities are searching for information about products, reading online news sites, playing online games and watching videos on YouTube.

"Firms spend millions on software to block their employees from watching videos, using social networking sites or shopping online under the pretence that it costs millions in lost productivity," said Coker. "That's not always the case."

However, Coker said the study looked at people who browsed in moderation, or were on the Internet for less than 20 percent of their total time in the office.

"Those who behave with Internet addiction tendencies will have a lower productivity than those without," he said.


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**how i wish i could open up facebook again here at work...
hehe

[unLi_ra]

pwede mi ka open sa facebook, multiply, youtube sa among office except friendster kay gi-allow man sa among MIS.. wifi pa jud among office! weeeeeeeeeeee

[Feign]

oh my gulay! nakarelate ko xD

katong pag ojt namo kay we had admin accounts.maka ym mi,youtube etc.
and because of that, grabe mi ato ka motivated nga mahuman ang site nga amoang gihimo nya dugay pa jud mi manguli.
pero kadugayan, gi limit na amoang access (wa nay ym,gi block na ang youtube ug uban sites). wa na mi ganahi ug trabaho
gi laayan naman mi nya mag cge na lang mi ato ug undertime.

[quinn_cg11]

hala really? sus saun na lng...
same thing with justin08... ako ma ingon is :
**how i wish i could open up facebook again here at work...
so sad...di nko ani ma productive.LOL

[klemzhou]

sa amo office murag internet cafe! haha!

[b|tcH_g0dd3sS]

The point of the study is to show that MODERATION is the key! To use the Internet in MODERATION then go back to work. Surf/Chat/Play for 20% of the total Work Time.

Most often than not, people will use 80% of their work Time surfing, Chatting, Playing which results in Low Productivity.

[peewee_toot]

^^is that true? grabeha sa ky 80% mn jd.

[rambutan]

agree kaau ko ani!
isubmit sa HR/OpsMan/IT namu beh

[honey13]

btaw..makawa jud sa stress labi na after ka makareceive ug irate call..may unta ibalik na ato access sa friendster, facebook and multiply..

[Feign]

The point of the study is to show that MODERATION is the key! To use the Internet in MODERATION then go back to work. Surf/Chat/Play for 20% of the total Work Time.

Most often than not, people will use 80% of their work Time surfing, Chatting, Playing which results in Low Productivity.

mao jud moderation.

kay sa akoang case ato, in charge ko sa web design nya noob man ayo ko. ang katong times nga mag youtube ko was for ..."inspiration" (palusot hahaha) and so mao to..."the web design concept was born xD"
pero bitaw, maka relieve man gud sa stress ang mo sideline ka anang mga ingon ana nga site.