News
It's a fact - Hull Daily Mail
[30-10-2009]
In this article, Hull Daily Mail reports on research sponsored by Morse on how office workers' use of Twitter and other social networking services is costing UK businesses £1.38bn a year in lost productivity. The majority of businesses still do not have guidelines set up on how their workers use social networking, meaning that workers are more likely to share inappropriate information or leave themselves open to security risks.
"The popularity of social networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, has grown considerably over the last couple of years. However, with it hascome the temptation to visit such sites during office hours," said Philip Wicks, a consultant at Morse."