Arguments Against My Position:
The urge of employees to use online social media for personal reasons leads to a decrease in productivity and potential damage to the growth of the company being that time is not being fully devoted to work that needs to be done.

Argument #1: Browsing social media allows employees to briefly shift their focus away from work in order to combat stress.

• Short breaks for surfing the Internet enable the mind to rest itself, leading to a higher total net concentration for a day’s work (Tulu 1097).
• In a study conducted by Lynn Wu, it was found that employees having access to a heterogeneous body of information such as social medias and having a high intensity of social communication may be helpful for productivity (50).

Argument #2: Time spent scrolling through social media is not significant enough to discredit the work ethic of an employee

• Use of social medias has no negative impact on productivity since they only consume a little fraction of time out of the whole day (Tulu 1097).
• "Organizations have to create a balance that allows the effective use of technology while hedging against some failings in human behavior and employee benefit" (Tulu 1097).
  

 

Sources

Tulu, Daniel T. "Should Online Social Medias (OSMs) be Banned at Work? the Impact of Social Medias on Employee Productivity in Ambo University, a Case Study." Research in International Business and Finance 42 (2017): 1096-102. Web. Feb 20, 2020.

Wu, Lynn. "Social Network Effects on Productivity and Job Security: Evidence from the Adoption of a Social Networking Tool." Information Systems Research 24.1 (2013): 30-51. JSTOR. Web.