Arguments
For 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: Being that employee productivity is essential to
the success of a company, the use of social media threatens
the time employees devote to necessary work.
"'Productivity'
refers to the time spent by an employee actively
executing the job he or she was hired to do, in order to
produce the desired
outcomes expected from the employees’ job description"
(Tulu 1097).
"A study in the
United Kingdom indicated that social media use in the work
place has been responsible for as much as €132 million per
day of lost productivity and 233 million hours lost every
month" (Wushe and Shenje 10).
A study in the United Kingdom
indicated that social media use in the workplace has been
responsible for as much as £132 million per day of lost
productivity and 233 million hours lost every month
A study in the United Kingdom
indicated that social media use in the workplace has been
responsible for as much as £132 million per day of lost
productivity and 233 million hours lost every month
Argument #2: The
excessive use of social media by employees during work hours
does not display a high level of work ethic and demand of the
organization to promote success.
Excessive
time on social media may damage the reputation and/or growth
of the employee and the organization
as a whole (Landers and Callan 629).
In a study
conducted investigating the link between ICT (information
and communications technology), human capital, workplace
organization, and labor productivity, it was found that the
use of ICT in the workplace resulted in the full
productivity potential not reached because human capital
was not efficiently combined with technology. Due to this
negative relationship between online social networks and
human capital, it can be presumed that excessive time on
social media will in turn hurt the growth of not only the
company but the employee as well (Ferreira and Du Plessis
3).
Employees who
experience stress induced by social media, "technostress",
can directly influence the performance of a whole
organization and become key indicators that can determine
the success of an organization (Yu et al 1094).
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