There are seven deadly online distractions that can kill any today’s business. Internet is a must to run any business these days. However, it is not easy to even concentrate doing at least 4 out of 8 hours dedicated for the real job. With the growth of Internet speed and usage, it is scary to leave a staff with non-blocked connection at office. At the end of the day he or she might not even do at least an hour of real job. This is a serious problem caused for many businesses to close down. Let us list down 7 deadly online distractions that can cause a business to shut down:
#1 Facebook
This is the most common problem faced by a lot of companies. By now, most productive companies would have blocked Facebook in their firewall. It’s the only way to make sure our investment is fruitful. There are some economic experts even claim that Facebook is the cause of economic downturn in 2010. This is a must block site in all office firewalls. Remember, Facebook is an online cancer that grows quickly day by day.
#2 Porn
This is one of the most traditional addictions dated back from centuries. The medium of media have changed not the addiction. Sex is still one of the best selling assets in marketing and promotion. That is why porn business never dies. If you don’t block porn websites in your office, it may create unhealthy environment that can cause sexual assaults and non-productive working hours among staffs.
#3 Online Games
This is one of the most favorite time consuming or “wasting time” cause where most of our youngsters spend their valuable time. If you have an organization with youngsters as staffs, make sure to check this periodically on their browsing history. It is not easy to distract the youngsters to stop playing games and do the real work in the office. Simply, online games are so addictive that some may even wakes up in every few hours to crop their farms in Farmville.
#4 Youtube
Youtube is still one of the top 5 most visited website in the world. It only delivers video that takes up a lot of time. It is both informative and time consuming when viewers watch videos that are not related to their job scope. Usually, music videos, drama series, soft porn like videos, funny videos, etc gets most views. It doesn’t sounds like a job related for many businesses out there. If you have very limited bandwidth per user in your office, you might want to consider to block Youtube as well as it consumes huge bandwidth resources while downloading/watching in HD quality videos.
#5 Shopping
With growing number of discount sites created each day, the trend of online shopping grows daily. People are more comfortable and convinced to buy things online. It is one of the easiest and cheap way to get things at our doorstep. Shopping is one of the most common addiction problem mainly for women. You don’t want your staffs to spend most of their time in office surfing shopping websites to buy some discounted clothes, vacations or movie tickets.
#6 Blogging and Gossips
Blogging started as personal diary platform where one shares their story and ramblings with closed ones. Now, this is another content management software that is widely used by many corporations to promote their product. It is both addictive and time consuming as well to read and write articles related to gossips, celebrities and other ramblings. This is not something to be done during working hours in office premise as well.
#7 Skype & Other IM
Instant messenger (IM) is another great time killing platform where we spend most of our time rambling and talk nonsense to our friends and family members in office during working hours. IM is a great idea to enhance communication bridge between work colleague, customers and suppliers. It has been widely misused for personal purpose which is not productive. If you find your staffs spending most of their time on Skype or any other relevant IM platform on daily basis with pending jobs unsettled, then it is time to block this privileges.
There you go a list of seven deadly online distraction that can kill any business no matter well established or new start ups. Act now to secure your business interest to control these distractions in your office environment. Although, the above 7 deadly distractions also can be considered as one of the best stress reliever, there are also a lot of other ways to relief stress. You can install Wii, darts board, pool table, chess game, Sudoku, massage chair, rest room, etc for your staffs to relax instead of any online related options where you have a better control over their leisure activity time.
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Written by Atniz
Topics: Work At Home