A study released last week by the
Well, that's good news for the 51 percent of workers who access social networking sites at least once a day while at work - not to mention the 50 percent that check their Facebook pages and the 69 percent that watch videos on YouTube several times a day, according to FaceTime's Collaborative Internet Survey published last fall.
The University's Dr. Brent Cocker says:
"Firms spend millions on software to block their employees from watching videos on YouTube, using social networking sites like Facebook or shopping online under the pretense that it costs millions in lost productivity, however that's not always the case."
We couldn't agree more. The whole blocking strategy just doesn't seem to work in the real world.
At the same time, the results of the Melbourne study directly contrast some news that broke in the UK this last week - where students at Bournemouth University have been complaining that they can't get work done because other students are hogging University computers to use Facebook and Twitter.
Visibility into what employees (and students in this case in
It sounds like the folks at Bournemouth Uni's IT team could do with not just controlling the bandwidth taken up by some students, but also the time that they're allowed to be on Facebook!
Watch this space for upcoming announcements about gaining greater visibility into what's really happening within corporate and organizational networks.
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