Excessive use of networking sites by employees during working hours.

1. Definitely, access to networking sites during work hours distracts the employee but it is not universally applicable. Stress is overcoming the employee that’s making them to search for immediate leisure time during the work hour. Our thesis, for the main part, is the polemics for companies current intention. To substantiate it, we have three questions to be answered.

• Research finding has given one side of the face but it has not predicted any probable upshot of implementing the current contemplation. Will it be judicious for long run? Our consideration is it may increase the cost due to its proportionate effect to decrease labor efficiency.
• Ignorance of social networking site can be viewed as loss of a valuable business proposition.
• Being heed less to social psychology may have an adverse effect upon corporate responsibility as well as sustainability.

2. A socially active employee should be considered as an asset of the organization i.e. globally recognized. The purport is very obvious – profit. But we should not achieve it at the cost of business sustainability and corporate responsibility.

If this were our firm, we would encourage this practice to a limit keeping the homeostasis of stress and work efficiency in mind. We would rather try to covert this agility in business mode of accessing the information and canvassing the opportunity, if any, at informal level. These active employees are the face of globally recognized organization for there would be role in incorporating corporate social responsibility.

3. If we were in this situation we would like to consider this quandary from a different angle. On one side, there is company contemplation to block the social networking site during office hour as it has paramount effect on the productivity level of the employee and increasing cost at the end and on the other, facing the challenge of looming hue and cry from the work force i.e. now latent but obviously going to affect the efficiency of the employee in the long go considering growing stress. The following steps we would rather consider;

• Counseling of employees about the use of networking site during working hours.
• Make them realize that the work assign to them is much more important to them and for the company which is paying them.
• Make them realize that the growth of company will ultimately leads to more perks.
• Cut down the perk of employees who are unable to meet the deadlines and counsel them about its reasons personally.
• Block the access social networking sites during work hour but let them use it at the time of respite.

***Note: This article is co-authored by,

• Khurshid Alam
• Kazi Wasim Zaman