Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Recruitment & retention
    • Wellbeing
    • Occupational Health
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise

Personnel Today

Register
Log in
Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Recruitment & retention
    • Wellbeing
    • Occupational Health
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise

HR strategyProductivity

Companies choose to block social networking sites

by Personnel Today 6 May 2008
by Personnel Today 6 May 2008

A report by Datamonitor, released today, stated that Britain has the highest membership in Europe of social networking sites.

In Europe as a whole, usage is predicted to more than double from 41.7 million to 107.4 million.

Sign up to our weekly round-up of HR news and guidance

Receive the Personnel Today Direct e-newsletter every Wednesday

OptOut
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

However, as social networking increases in popularity, companies are wising up to the dangers and negative productivity effects linked with these sites.
 
32 per cent of ScanSafe’s customers are now choosing to block social networking sites compared to 18 per cent a year ago.
 
Spencer Parker, director of product development at ScanSafe comments:

“Social networking sites can expose businesses to malware and are a drain on productivity and bandwidth. ScanSafe has previously detected malware on social networking sites including Facebook and MySpace. Given the option, companies are increasingly choosing to block these sites in order to protect their networks and encourage efficiency in the workplace.”
 
Assuming that usage of social networking sites doubles then it is likely that more companies will choose to block or limit the usage of interactive social networking sites whilst at work.
 

Personnel Today

Personnel Today articles are written by an expert team of award-winning journalists who have been covering HR and L&D for many years. Some of our content is attributed to "Personnel Today" for a number of reasons, including: when numerous authors are associated with writing or editing a piece; or when the author is unknown (particularly for older articles).

previous post
e-skills UK invites input to new strategic plan
next post
Peoplemaps celebrates launch of online psychometric profiling with £200,000 giveaway

You may also like

Four-day working week trial in Scotland’s public sector...

29 Aug 2025

Return to office: the looming battle over where...

11 Aug 2025

One in 10 SMEs say staff have quit...

6 Aug 2025

Poor workspaces costing UK billions, reveals research

21 Jul 2025

How teams can tackle the summer slump

18 Jul 2025

Businesses warned against reducing recruitment in favour of...

15 Jul 2025

How using data can transform return-to-office mandates

11 Jul 2025

Stop chasing quick fixes: return to the office...

3 Jul 2025

How smarter collaboration can eliminate the workplace productivity...

23 Jun 2025

Sniff a lemon on World Productivity Day and...

20 Jun 2025

  • Work smart – stay well: Avoid unnecessary pain with centred ergonomics SPONSORED | If you often notice...Read more
  • Elevate your L&D strategy at the World of Learning 2025 SPONSORED | This October...Read more
  • How to employ a global workforce from the UK (webinar) WEBINAR | With an unpredictable...Read more

Personnel Today Jobs
 

Search Jobs

PERSONNEL TODAY

About us
Contact us
Browse all HR topics
Email newsletters
Content feeds
Cookies policy
Privacy policy
Terms and conditions

JOBS

Personnel Today Jobs
Post a job
Why advertise with us?

EVENTS & PRODUCTS

The Personnel Today Awards
The RAD Awards
Employee Benefits Live
Employee Benefits
Forum for Expatriate Management
Whatmedia

ADVERTISING & PR

Advertising opportunities
Features list 2025

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Linkedin


© 2011 - 2025 DVV Media International Ltd

Personnel Today
  • Home
    • All PT content
  • Email sign-up
  • Topics
    • HR Practice
    • Employee relations
    • Learning & training
    • Pay & benefits
    • Recruitment & retention
    • Wellbeing
    • Occupational Health
    • HR strategy
    • HR Tech
    • The HR profession
    • Global
    • All HR topics
  • Legal
    • Case law
    • Commentary
    • Flexible working
    • Legal timetable
    • Maternity & paternity
    • Shared parental leave
    • Redundancy
    • TUPE
    • Disciplinary and grievances
    • Employer’s guides
  • AWARDS
    • Personnel Today Awards
    • The RAD Awards
  • Jobs
    • Find a job
    • Jobs by email
    • Careers advice
    • Post a job
  • Brightmine
    • Learn more
    • Products
    • Free trial
    • Request a quote
  • Webinars
  • Advertise