Facebook costs businesses dear

An article through BNA Highlights describes how businesses are losing tons of money from the loss of productivity due to the over use of social networking sites. An employment law firm based in the UK concluded that over 233 million hours of work are lost per month due to these social networking systems. The firm goes on to say that businesses should block the use of these sites during work hours in order to regain this loss productivity. While blocking access to these sites is perfectly legal for businesses to do, is it really the right thing to do? Can't this problem be solved in another way.

Apparently this firm doesn't see the opportunities that are available to fix this problem, and possibly increase productivity and innovation. If companies were to set up their own social networking sites they could adapt them to their own businesses. Ideas could be shared across the board in a more up to date and fun way. This could make employees come together and create large tight knit teams. This could even create a stronger connection between upper management and the staff.

Social networking sites for businesses may be hard to implement but I am really just trying to make a simple point. When a problem comes about especially from new technology or social interests, you should step back and see what positive things can come out of this problem before it is shut down.