Personal Surfing At Work Is Good
from the finally! dept
Every time another study comes out, commissioned by a web filtering company, saying that (oh no!) people are doing personal surfing at work - I wonder what's wrong with a little personal surfing at work? I certainly do it, and it's useful for me to take a mental breather and keep my batteries charged. I encourage my employees to do it as well. Contrary to web filtering and short sighted managers' beliefs, it's really not a good thing to force someone to remain engaged non-stop for an entire day. Their productivity actually goes down. Finally, some researchers have come up with a study to support that. Researchers have shown that letting employees do some personal surfing at work leads to "better time management, stress reduction, improvement of skill sets and helping to achieve a balance between work and personal life." This follows a study earlier this year that said employees who surfed at work ended up making it up elsewhere. Perhaps people are finally realizing there's a difference between time spent working and productivity. Now where's the study saying work-time naps are also helpful to productivity?
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CLASSIC case of 'Napster logic'
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Sorry, but no where did anyone say people should be surfing at work ALL day.
When you take someone's reasoned argument, ignore the point, stretch it to the extreme and pretend you've proved your point, you don't look very smart. Just because you can't follow a discussion past the very first level of analysis doesn't mean that what people say isn't true.
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Most of the Engineers where I work admit they couldn't do their jobs without Google - or the company would have to spend a fortune on manuals, training courses and support.
Whenever I'm doing a bit of surfing, I stop immediately if there's something workish to do, I don't believe many people will let work slide to go lurk on some forum....?
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It definitely helped my productivity to be able to take a break and go play a game of ping pong or take a nap on the couch. I often come to the most important realizations about a project while *not* working on it.
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what's the diff?
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hey!
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surfing @ work
Sometimes I surfing triggers my creativity. I also can't help but work at home. I guess it's because I love what I do that it does become blurred at times.
My first job out of college with a biology degree found me answering the phones at a startup. I was so bored I surfed a lot and never got tired of it. I got to know the web really well. Before I knew it that became my new career.
At Novell Eric Schmidt asked employees to surf the web for an hour a day. Things evolve so quickly you have to explore often or you'll lose touch.
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