iinet's October 2007 news features an article on the web at work. Does access to the web reduce productivity?
Well, it does and it doesn't, according to iiNews readers. Certainly it can increase productivity, eg by facilitating communication, but it can also be a real distraction as people use it for non-work purposes.
However, banning applications such as Facebook isn't going to help, the report concludes. Better to see excessive use of Facebook etc as an issue of a "more complex problem of employee morale, motivation and supervision" and implement guidelines for their use, rather than ban them altogether. "One thing seems to be pretty certain, if employee morale is low then banning one thing will simply redirect the problem somewhere else."
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