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Do social networking sites serve as useful tools for connecting within the business world, or are they simply time-wasters? More than half of enterprise IT leaders lean toward the latter perspective, according to a new survey conducted amongst 1,400 CIOs by the employment experts at Robert Half Technology. The results conform with data collected from a previous study released by Nucleus Research earlier this summer; this slideshow compares results from both studies to paint a picture of social networking in the workplace. Also see: Work-Safe Social Networking.
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- Approximately 54% of CIOs report that their company policy completely prohibits employees from using social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter while at work.
- 19% of CIOs say policy allows employees to use social networking sites at work, but only for business purposes.
- Approximately 16% of CIOs say their companies generally take it on a case-by-case basis, allowing access to social media sites for limited personal use.
- An additional 10% of CIOs are fairly liberal-minded about Facebook and the like. These technology leaders allow social networking while on the job for any type of personal use.
- The final 1% of CIOs lack any type of visibility into the issue, reporting they didn't know what the company policy is on the matter.
- Close to half of employees queried said they use Facebook at work and 77% of those who have a Facebook account use it at work.
- Of those who do use Facebook at work, 87% said they could not define a clear business reason for accessing the site and some reported using it as much as two hours per day.
- One in 33 employees say they use Facebook exclusively while at work.
- Nucleus Research analysts estimate that employers could stand to gain 1.5% more productivity by banning Facebook in the workplace.
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