Saturday, July 26, 2008

Banning Websites in Offices Can Make Employees Less Productive

relax-office If blogs, personal emails, social networks and other time wasting websites are banned at your workplace, show this to your boss.

A study of office workers in UK has found that banning access to websites at work actually decreases staff productivity.

Tea breaks and fag breaks have long been the most common types of break within office culture but the report shows that online breaks are fast becoming the most popular choice of break for office workers.

Unlike popular notion that employees waste time on the Internet, this research says that taking a 10-minute online break during the course of the working day helps reduce stress and results in a more happier workplace.

From Google News. Here’s the full report. The study is commissioned by a company that makes some popular computer games.


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