http://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/ Switched Comments for http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/Sep 4th 2009 8:54PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/Sep 5th 2009 9:18AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/Sep 5th 2009 12:01PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/Sep 7th 2009 8:43PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/Sep 7th 2009 11:30PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/Sep 7th 2009 8:46PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/The employees that did use it during work, not break time, should have their pay docked and given a warning. If they do it again, fire them.
The other alternative is to block social networking sites from being accessed by government computers.
Ever notice that social networking sounds like a way of getting social diseases?]]>Sep 8th 2009 2:45AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/Sep 7th 2009 8:47PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/The alternative interpretation of this data is that all 4500 employees spent a total of 413 hours per average month on Facebook. This works out to slightly under 2 seconds per hour or 15.2 seconds per work day on Facebook. As the article implied that employees were allowed to spend their lunch period doing personal activities on their computer, it should not be amazing that they spent those 15+ secondss on Facebook, during their lunch period. If not, so what? have any of you ever seen any employee spent less than 15 seconds of the work day smoking a cigarette, drinking a cup of coffee, or chatting up a fellow employee.

Clearly the data in your excellent(?) article leave something to be desired.
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How did the author not bother to do the math, showing that these British idiots were spending, on average, less than one day per month on Facbeook? And, did they happen to do the math on how many hours of personal calls those same employees made per month? or how that total changed over time with the rise of Facebook?

I can't even begin to explain how much I loathe it when these morons glance at the fact that people use computers while at work for personal reasons, and then jump to the asinine conclusion that, therefore, they're wasting time they would've otherwise spent at work.

Ever hear of the water cooler?

Idiots.

The fact that this same writer went on to act like checking Facebook as part of your job was the most absurd thing they'd ever heard of just proves that they don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

Yeah. There's no such thing as a business or governmental entity that connects with users and/or customers via Facebook. Why, clearly, that's the most absurd thing I've ever heard of.

Clearly, I don't have 4 or 5 friends on my own list that are governmental entities. Nope. Not at all.

Moron.]]>Sep 7th 2009 9:23PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/Sep 9th 2009 3:47AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/Sep 7th 2009 9:41PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/Sep 7th 2009 9:56PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/http://www.switched.com/2009/09/04/city-workers-banned-from-facebook-after-spending-572-hours-on/
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