Facebook at work, 1.5 billion euros loss
Nearly one-third of Danes regularly log on to Facebook at work, mingling away the equivalent of about 1.5 billion euros in lost working hours each year, according to a poll published yesterday.
Conducted by the Dwarf and Userneeds institutes between February 2 and 8, the poll showed that some 55,000 Facebook users spend more than 30 minutes of each work day logged on to the social networking site.
The time spent on Facebook cost Danish society 10.8 billion kroner (1.5 billion euros, 2.0 billion dollars) a year in diminished productivity.
“We knew that this problem existed but we are surprised by the extent that this is impacting productivity and competitiveness,” Charlotte Vester, the deputy director of the Danish Chamber of Commerce, told AFP.
“We really do not need to be world champions in using Facebook in the workplace,” she said, adding it was up to employers to “set rules for using this network to prevent excesses that will damage work efficiency.”
Only 7.8 percent of the 2,545 public and private sector professionals questioned for yesterday’s poll said they used the network professionally.
Some 1.9 million Danes aged 16-65 have profiles on Facebook.
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