The Cost of Social Media to Worker Productivity: $2.25 Billion [...

Courtesy Mashable!  Mon, 10/26/2009 - 07:53

calendar imageEvery now and then an analysis pops up claiming that this or that online activity is costing businesses millions or billions of dollars because employees are doing them instead of work.

The latest scapegoat: social networking and media sites. IT services group Morse conducted a survey, questioning 1,460 office workers, and came to the conclusion that use of Twitter and other social networking sites is costing UK firms £1.38 billion (approximately 2.25 billion dollars) every...

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