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This 5 page research paper examines the problem of declining productivity due to employees using social networking sites, such as Facebook, during working hours. Other associated problems are also examined. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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while these sites are seemingly ideal for "staying in touch with friends and networking with colleagues," their use can be potentially disastrous for business in terms of "lost productivity form
staff using sites like MySpace and Facebook" during working hours (Rasmussen, Mylonas, and Beck, 2009, p. 280). Due to the prevalence of this activity, a number of businesses have established
the policy of banning access to these sites on office computers (Rasmussen, Mylonas, and Beck, 2009). The problems that are associated with social networking sites are multiple and largely
pertain to privacy issues, as well as lost productivity. For example, employees have been known to post browsing through a social networking site it is relatively easy to locate information
that can be beneficial to a businesss competitors, such as the names of clients and even the software being used in a businesss office (Rasmussen, Mylonas, and Beck, 2009). Also,
if an employee uses a social networking site to spread office gossip, the company may end up facing lawsuits for defamation and/or break of confidentiality (Rasmussen, Mylonas, and Beck, 2009).
Therefore, it is probably not surprising that American CEOs are notably absent from these networking sites ("CEOs Cautious," 2009). A study conducted last year revealed that only two CEOs had
Facebook accounts and 81 percent did not and, furthermore, only thirteen CEOs had profiles on the "professional networking site LinkedIn" ("CEOs Cautious," 2009, p. 10). However, there are those who
disagree with this assessment. Some people regard social networking sites as the "new b?te noire," which epitomizes all that is "irrelevant" about this "Web 2.0 concept" (Wilson, 2009, p.
54). To clarify this statement, the term "b?te noire," which is French for "black beast," is used to refer to an idea or object that especially disliked and "Web 2.0"
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