Does social media kill productivity?

We often give a shout out to social media for helping us connect, market and socialise. But too much of a good thing is well, not so good. Especially if you’re an employer. A recent study done by Team Lease showed that unrestricted usage of social media has a negative impact on employee productivity. The study showed that employees spend more than 32 per cent of their time on social media every day for personal work, which is an average of 2.35 hours.

What’s wrong in updating their status? But 13 per cent of total productivity is lost owing to the social media indulgence alone. And it gets worse. The extensive usage of social media by employees has also resulted in an increase in loss of confidential information, defamation, misinformation and employee solicitation. And who is the biggest culprit in luring people online? Facebook, according to the survey.

Out of the 62 per cent employees who accessed social media during working hours, nearly 83 per cent of them spend significant time browsing Facebook.