http://www.switched.com/2007/09/12/facebook-costing-businesses-264-million-daily-in-lost-man-hours/ Switched Comments for Facebook Costing Businesses $264 Million Daily in Lost Man Hours http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/12/facebook-costing-businesses-264-million-daily-in-lost-man-hours/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/12/facebook-costing-businesses-264-million-daily-in-lost-man-hours/Sep 12th 2007 5:22PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/12/facebook-costing-businesses-264-million-daily-in-lost-man-hours/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/12/facebook-costing-businesses-264-million-daily-in-lost-man-hours/Sep 12th 2007 10:30PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/12/facebook-costing-businesses-264-million-daily-in-lost-man-hours/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/12/facebook-costing-businesses-264-million-daily-in-lost-man-hours/Sep 13th 2007 4:07AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/12/facebook-costing-businesses-264-million-daily-in-lost-man-hours/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/12/facebook-costing-businesses-264-million-daily-in-lost-man-hours/
Guess they don't realize their job is to accounting/marketing and mine is to keep our networks running smoothly.]]>Sep 13th 2007 8:17AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/12/facebook-costing-businesses-264-million-daily-in-lost-man-hours/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/12/facebook-costing-businesses-264-million-daily-in-lost-man-hours/Oct 26th 2007 7:42PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/09/12/facebook-costing-businesses-264-million-daily-in-lost-man-hours/http://www.switched.com/2007/09/12/facebook-costing-businesses-264-million-daily-in-lost-man-hours/When Facebook was introduced in its early stages, it was only for college students. Even more, it was only given to a few select schools. My University was one of the first, and I was a Junior at the time. So yes, I was one of those early adopters.

BUT - and its a big but - I am SO GLAD my company blocks facebook. It's a nice little website for keeping in touch, looking at/sharing picture, etc. But there's no place for it in the workplace.

I had the unfortunate experience a year ago of being left in charge of an office and the intern in it. He was my own age, we went to the same school and I just happened to graduate a year earlier. He spent those entire days, 8 hour stretches, on facebook. It seriously made me ill; made me lose sleep.

It has since been blocked and I'm thankful. There is ZERO reason a company should allow it. I fully believe that if a worker isn't paid for a lunch break and he or she doesn't leave for lunch, then he or she should be able to browse the internet at lunch. News, weather, whatever. But social net needs not to be allowed. Its just stupid. ]]>Dec 28th 2007 9:17AM