New Delhi: Corporate employees on an average spend 60 minutes on social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook in office hours leading to loss of productivity, a survey said.
"Close to 12.5 percent of productivity of human resource in corporate sector is misappropriated each day since a vast majority of them while away their time accessing social networking sites during the office hours," industry body Assocham said in a survey.
Almost each day, on an average, corporate employee spends an hour, gluing to various social networking sites such as Orkut, Facebook, Myspace, Linkdein "for romancing or otherwise drive some satisfaction out of it," the chamber said.
With this average, corporate employee’s each day working is reduced by an hour from 8 hour to 7 hour, it said.
The results are based on responses of nearly 4,000 corporate employees in places like Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Indore, Mumbai, Pune, Chandigarh and Kanpur.
"As a matter of fact, growing use of browsing sites can be dangerous for overall productivity and IT companies have already installed software to restrict its use," Assocham secretary general D S Rawat said.
The Assocham survey showed that 77 percent of workers who have Orkut account use it during work hours. Interestingly, 83 percent see nothing wrong in visiting social networking sites during the office hours.
"More than half of office workers use sites like Orkut, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Myspace for personal use during the working day, and admit wasting an average of 40-60 minutes each day," Rawat said.
Orkut and Facebook are found to be the most popular online destinations among survey respondents.
Keeping in touch with friends and family, for fun and looking for new jobs are some of the main factors which attract the workers to social networking sites, Assocham.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 12:27