14 DAY TRIAL // We all know Facebook is a real phenomenon on the Internet but when it is accessed from other places than your personal computer, it instantly becomes a serious matter. Security company Sophos conducted a special research to find out how many employees access Facebook from work and how often they do it. No more than 37.2 percent of the total 500 Facebook users who answered the questionnaire said they access the social network website one or twice a day from their workstation, while 8 percent admitted they visit the page up to ten times a day. The juicy part is that 14.8 percent of the respondents said they are permanently connected to Facebook during their work time.
"The results show that more than one fifth of these Facebook users are actually Facebook abusers. They're seriously struggling to tear themselves away from the website when they should be concentrating on their jobs - disturbing news for all organizations that are still allowing employees uncontrolled access," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.
"Several trade unions have spoken out in the site's defense, suggesting that employers should put more trust in their workforce, and clearly the majority of people are using the site in moderation. The problem is that a 20 percent addiction rate equates to an awful lot of loafing, while there's also the likelihood that the abusers could ruin it for the other rule-abiding users."
The results are pretty amazing and can easily prove us that Facebook is more than a simple social network. Since only 40 percent of the respondents said they access Facebook only from work, it's pretty obvious that this website also has an important impact over the work productivity in many companies around the world. And since the number of Facebook's members is continuously increasing, the website's officials sustain that approximately 200,000 new members register for an account every day.