| Nicole Paterno | Posted: June 16, 2009 1:27 PM |
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With the ubiquity of Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, Friendster, My Space, LinkedIn and Ning, are these networking sites causing unproductiveness in the work place? Are these distractions? Should these be banned in offices? |
| Nicole Paterno | Posted: June 23, 2009 3:44 PM |
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It all depends. According to an acquaintance of mine, he read an article or study about Facebook making the employees more productive at work. When it was absent from the workplace, the people felt bored. I think SNS are ways to relieve people of stress from work. However, it does make me wonder how some are able to spend a lot of time updating their status and activities during work hours on a regular basis rather than do actual work. |
| Paco Sandejas | Posted: July 9, 2009 4:14 PM |
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Right now as I am responding to this thread, I am obviously not looking at my corporate email account and instead focusing on one part of my work which is corporate social responsibility and advocating for technology entrepreneurship in the Philippines. This BUSINESS NETWORKING SITE (which is our NEW BGN2.0) is NOT a "SOCIALIZING" network. If I were here to make new friends only and to scope out beautiful people or gossip about others, then I would likely be taking time away from my "work hours".
Networks are simply tools. Depending on how we use them, I believe they can be obvious distractions (check out the screens of many employees and monitor what percentage of their time at the office is spent on non-core applications |
| Judith Magnaye | Posted: September 23, 2009 10:46 PM |
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True, not a total waste of time if you use it in moderation. Moderation, afterall is the spice of life. |
| NELSON CO | Posted: October 7, 2009 8:43 PM |
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and depends on what line of work you are in, what are your responsibilities, etc. |
| Paco Sandejas | Posted: October 8, 2009 12:17 AM |
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Haha. But I see so many people wasting so much time on Facebook. Or is it really wasting time? Do you guys catch your colleagues or yourself spending time on FB when you should be doing more work? How do your companies handle this? Management by objective? |
| Vincent Villamil | Posted: October 8, 2009 7:11 AM |
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I am a lead in our sales department and dont put much time on FB (last time I checked was 2 months ago). In my team, I allow them to allocate time on personal things. We do 'time boxing'. And since we are in sales, we do have MBOs. Based on the MBOs, I sit down with them and create their daily time box. I have what I call SHIT (suggested hourly itinerary). With it, we plot the suggested activities by the hour. Considering we have 9 hours, with 8 hours working total, I give them 1 hour for personal stuff. Day by day, the personal time slot is moved (e.g. today 5AM is personal hour, tomorrow it is 3AM). In my 5 years of leading sales people, I find that giving them time to be outside of work such as allowing them to go to SNS, makes the team more personable and more positive. As for me, my personal time is being spent to reading personal emails on gmail and finding PRODUCTIVE sites like this. Productive as a Filipino netizen. |
| Nicole Paterno | Posted: October 9, 2009 3:51 PM |
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Ooohh ... I like that: SHIT. Interesting Vincent! LOL But really, I think that there is no harm in having people spend time at SNS at work AS LONG AS it is done in moderation i.e. not interfering with work and important tasks. Our brains do need a break once in a while from the daily grind. However, if one's business utilizes and is dependent on media such as these like the ad firms and marketing/ promo divisions of groups, it's one of the many digital ways to sell products, monitor markets and get the pulse of the people. Anyway, if you'd like to track the performance of your staff and employees, just check na lang how many quizzes or the levels they've achieved in the FB games or the [not so serious] articles or Youtube videos they upload on their profile. That is of course if they are in your Facebook friends list. Hahaha ... malas if wala!
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| Michael Mayor | Posted: February 13, 2010 10:44 AM |
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Formula is:
Kahit pagsabay sabayin mo pa lahat ng SNS ng nakalantad. Haha !
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| Judith Magnaye | Posted: June 18, 2010 4:31 AM |
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Edison Research just released its latest report on social network usage, based on polling data from phone calls to a representative sample of 1,753 Americans. The study compares the behavior and demographics of frequent users of social networks to those of the population at large. Some of the results: Though social networking is rapidly becoming more common throughout the wider population, it is still most popular among the young; students are especially overrepresented. Women are bigger users than men. The biggest social networkers are, unsurprisingly, more likely to be big Internet users and early-adopters of new gadgets. But they still think the mobile phone is the technology that has had the biggest impact on their lives. In a somewhat off-topic result, Pandora is absolutely slaughtering the competition in online audio brand recognition. |
| Judith Magnaye | Posted: August 14, 2010 1:35 AM |
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So now, how about using the networks for good governance? Read the article “Aquino gov't to catch corrupt via Facebook, Twitter” | ABS-CBN News | www.abs-cbnnews.com “ The government said Thursday it planned to catch corrupt officials in cyberspace by using sites such as Facebook and Twitter as forums for the public to report crimes…” Back in 1998, texting became popular in the Philippines and in 2001, text messaging played an important role in EDSA2. Thus, the country became known as the ‘text capital of the world’. So far, my non-Filipino friends commented that we have used FB for real time knowledge and crisis management at the height of the Ondoy tragedy and in denouncing the Maguindanao massacre last year. In 2010, the networks have been used to a certain extent in expressing views and discussing issues related to the election and other governance issues; there’s also the Ivan Padilla case and that guy who massacred the family in Olongapo who were caught by lawmen by tracing their whereabouts and activities on FB. |
| Erika Fille Legara | Posted: September 27, 2010 8:49 PM |
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According to B. Koerner, "humans weren’t designed to maintain a constant focus on assigned tasks." From a student/researcher's perspective, it can be a good distraction (if there's even such a concept). Personally, taking my mind off research every now and then relieves me from the pressure or need to be creative, which ironically makes me more creative. "Wasting" away my time on Facebook (or Twitter or BGN) relaxes my mind. There are times though (very rare moments, ehem) when I'd catch myself spending too much time on Facebook. I'd then feel so guilty for being so irresponsible and unproductive. That guilt would then fuel the desire to be more productive (to make up for the idleness) and— voilà!— an increase in productivity. :-) I agree with Nicole. "It all depends." :-) |
