Overview and Explanation: In our modern society, social media tends to significantly influence multiple aspects of our daily lives, especially when it comes to the work. Most of these digital platforms have been created to improve the worker’s productivity by facilitating the connections between students and businesses everywhere. However, employers are not wrong to assume that their employees are not using these tools for work purposes while on the job sometimes.
It is important for companies to monitor this issue, so that they can ensure that productivity keeps moving forward instead of falling apart and ultimately leading to their downfall.
Context and Background:
To start off, what exactly is social media? Social Media is any technological platform where two or more people (commonly known world-wide) can interact with each other and share ideas, thoughts, discoveries or just entertaining content. Social Media has changed the way we connect with the modern world. People have become extremely more aware of the world we live in today thanks to social media and its ability to spread information like wildfire about anything and everything. There is no …show more content…
Employees may waste precious work time playing games, talking to friends and updating their status on various social platforms. Such distractions can significantly affect a company from something as minor as not reaching the daily demands, to something major, such as accidents and harm to the employee doing the task or to the other employees around them. At all times, when in the workplace, matters should not be taken lightly and the workers must be vigilant and aware of everything that’s going on. The only time the workers can relieve themselves of these responsibilities is when they are either on their assigned breaks or when they have completed their shift and are dismissed to their
It is important for companies to monitor this issue, so that they can ensure that productivity keeps moving forward instead of falling apart and ultimately leading to their downfall.
Context and Background:
To start off, what exactly is social media? Social Media is any technological platform where two or more people (commonly known world-wide) can interact with each other and share ideas, thoughts, discoveries or just entertaining content. Social Media has changed the way we connect with the modern world. People have become extremely more aware of the world we live in today thanks to social media and its ability to spread information like wildfire about anything and everything. There is no …show more content…
Employees may waste precious work time playing games, talking to friends and updating their status on various social platforms. Such distractions can significantly affect a company from something as minor as not reaching the daily demands, to something major, such as accidents and harm to the employee doing the task or to the other employees around them. At all times, when in the workplace, matters should not be taken lightly and the workers must be vigilant and aware of everything that’s going on. The only time the workers can relieve themselves of these responsibilities is when they are either on their assigned breaks or when they have completed their shift and are dismissed to their