FW: Facebook, YouTube at Work Make Better Employees

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Facebook, YouTube at Work Make Better Employees: Study
 
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Caught Twittering or on Facebook at work? It'll make you a better employee, according to an Australian study that shows surfing the Internet for fun during office hours increases productivity.
 
The University of Melbourne study showed that people who use the Internet for personal reasons at work are about 9 percent more productive that those who do not.
 
Study author Brent Coker, from the department of management and marketing, said "workplace Internet leisure browsing," or WILB, helped to sharpened workers' concentration.
 
"People need to zone out for a bit to get back their concentration," Coker said on the university's website (www.unimelb.edu.au/)
 
 
full article at
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2009/04/reuters_us_work_internet_tech_life
 
 
 It's OK to surf over there.
You're enhancing your productivity, right?

 

 

 

 

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