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How many times per day do you find yourself doing NON work related activities? Have you thought about the time spent on personal calls, emails, texting, chatting, Facebooking, Tweeting, YouTubing, surfing, iPhoning, Googling, Blogging? Is any of that directly related to your job? Or are you wasting your employer's time?
Salary.com recently conducted a survey of ‘wasting time at work’ and surprisingly, they say we’re wasting less time at work. Believable? With more distractions than ever, is it possible that we are more productive and efficient at our jobs?
Social Media has infiltrated the workplace in such a way that employers have had to create Social Media policies for Facebook and Twitter abuse.
Some even banned those social media sites and blocked employees from being able to log in from work computers. BUT you have your mobile device to get around that don’t you?
There are employees that have the responsibility to update company Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. So what’s stopping them from updating their own personal pages and take the focus off their jobs?
If I said I haven’t broken the Social Media law and focused ONLY on work related activities, I would be a liar. Admittedy, I find myself responding to a personal text or an IM, but try to keep the Facebooking and Tweeting to recruiting related activities. It's clear that the there is a large volume of distractions out there today and certainly begs the question – IS TECHNOLOGY MAKING YOU BAD AT YOUR JOB? |