Social networks are turning into time wasters for Indian employees as revealed by a latest survey from Assocham (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry). The report points out how the social media craze is reaching office desktops and in turn affecting the overall productivity of the companies.
Note: The survey was conducted in 13 major cities – Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Chennai with 4000 participants in the age bracket of 21 – 60.
The Survey Points out some primers such as :
- Indian employees are spending an hour on an average on social networks like Facebook, Orkut, etc.
This figure points out just the surfing time on social networks, what about the time spent in getting back from the social world to the real world (getting back with managing work).
- Productivity suffered is close to 12.5% as employees surf their time away during office hours.
This figure is pretty high compared to any standards and could create havoc with companies’ overall productivity. This could be even more dangerous for IT companies’ billing their clients on hourly basis.
- Four in 10 employees built their social profiles from their office. Orkut, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter which is the most famous.
Social networks are seen as passports to get better paying jobs now-a-days and better still as a ‘land for romancing’. The usages could be even higher than recruitment portal surfed during office hours.
- Some 83% saw nothing wrong in surfing at work during office hours.
Employees find surfing social network completely moral and legitimate at their workplace. Its time that companies re-write their rule book prohibiting its uses.
- 84% of respondents in India’s major cities show signs of internet addiction
We all want India’s internet penetration to soar high enough but not the growing usages in offices. This internet addiction if stopped blatantly could increase attrition rate in companies as employees will take it as an assault on their freedom.
The survey also points out that only around 14% of employees were given full access to social networking sites.
The companies are up in sleeve against social media craze and are preventing these sites with help of restrictor systems in place but in days of high smartphone usages and advert of 3G in India it will be about time employees turn towards their cell phones in offices to surf social networks.
The HR in all companies spend most time on social networking sites, since they are the most jobless & bureaucratic… lol