With over 1.4 billion active users on Facebook and another 300 million on Twitter, it is time to take a close look at how addiction has affected employees’ performance at work.
How has the social media helped you to improve your overall work input or performance at work? Do you always feel a sense of guilt when you have spent more time chatting with friends and updating your status on Facebook than actually attending to customers or clients at work?
The social media craze has no doubt caught up with millions of employees all over the world. With millions of people not being able to separate their free time from work period, will this not have a negative impact on a company’s overall performance at the end of the year or month?
Of course, there are bright side to all these as some social media addicts have indeed testified that they have been able to improve their contribution at work as a result of what they gained or found from LinkedIn for instance. LinkedIn by the way is the world’s most popular social network site that encourages business and career-related connections.
So let’s hear what your answer to the question is. Has the social media contributed to a drop in your performance at work or helped to improve it?
