Facebook & Twitter Cause Lost Billions Pound in England

The employees are wasting time using Facebook, Twitter and other social networking pages to make the British businessman lost billions of pounds.

The findings were the result of recent research networks UK workforce, MyJobGroup.co.uk, against the country's 1,000 workers.
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MyJobGroup.co.uk declare the results of the poll of 1000 respondents found that almost six percent or two million of 34 million workers in the country spent more than an hour per day on social networks when they are in the workplace.

That number increased to more than one-eighths of the whole of their working day.

"Our results clearly show that employment in the UK spend more time while at work to visit a social media network, which, unknown, can have a negative impact on the productivity of many companies across the country," said Managing Director Myjobgroup.co. Uk Lee Fayer in a statement on the results of the survey as quoted by Reuters Life!

MyJobGroup.co.uk claimed loss of work hours on Facebook, Twitter and other social media networks had the potential to make England suffer losses up to 14 billion pounds (22.16 billion U.S. dollars).

Research shows that over half of the entire workforce in the UK - 55 percent - said they access social media profiles in the workplace.

In addition, they also spend much time very much for talking with friends, send messages, add photos and videos, as well as update their profile. As a result of their act, the productivity of the company suffered a blow.

Despite the negative impact on the economic field in the middle of the recovery is still fragile, many workers who questioned denied the existence of a negative impact on the efficiency of their social media.

Only 14 percent of respondents admitted to be less productive due to social media and 10 percent even admitted social media "makes them more productive."

Moreover, there is still widespread opposition to the ban on access to social networking in the workplace.

More than two-thirds (68 percent) suggested some form of access during working hours. Only a third wanted a page like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube are prohibited during working hours. It shows the increasing importance of social media for daily life and widespread opposition if its access is restricted.

"While we certainly do not want to kill the joy, the people who spent more than an hour of work per day on Facebook and Twitter greatly impede the company's efforts to enhance productivity, which is more important than ever given the vulnerability of our economic condition," says Fayer.

"All companies should do their best to monitor the use of social networking pages during working hours and ensure that their employees do not abuse the freedom of