A recent Survey conducted by The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) shows that office staff on average spend an hour a day on sites like Facebook,Orkut, Myspace and Linkedin which reduces their overall productivity by 12.5%.

Office Staff use these sites for purposes which are not related to their work . The results are based on responses from nearly 4,000 corporate employees between the ages of 21 and 60 in Delhi, Bangalore, Madras (Chennai), Cochin, Indore, Ahmedabad, Surat, Mumbai (Bombay), Pune, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Lucknow and Kanpur.

According to Assocham 12.5% loss in Productivity is dangerous for companies.

It is interesting to know that more that 77% of employees access Orkut accounts and more than 50% surf facebook in their working hours.

Other interesting finding from research is that More that Four in Each Ten Employees were not aware of Orkut and Facebook before their Jobs and Create their complete profile after joining company in working hours.

According to Survey only 19% of Indian Companies allow surfing social networking sites, Out of which 16% allow their use only for Business purposes and not for personal use. But on the other Hand 83% of employees saw nothing wrong in surfing at work during office hours.

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