More than 40 percent of Brits working in Europe are likely prone to ignore social media restrictions at workplace, claims a new study.
According to a new research by Samsung Electronics, conducted among 4,500 office employees across Europe, 40 percent of the European employees said that they faced ban on using social sites like Facebook and Twitter at work.
However, 41 percent of UK workers admitted they knowingly ignore ban on social media at their workplace. Around 34 percent of German workers confessed accessing social media while at work, followed by the 33 percent Spanish workers, 32 percent Italian workers, and 31 percent Belgian and Dutch workers.
The French were the most sincere of all with only 20 percent of workers knowingly ignoring the bans on use of social media against their employer’s instructions.
Dr Dimitrious Tsivrikos, consumer and business psychologist at University College London, said that it’s perfectly natural for employers to wish for control on their employees’ use of technology to some degree from a security point of view. However, Tsivrikos believes that neglecting employee’s contemporary needs and banning social media may make employees waste more time.
Furthermore, Dr Dimitrious also suggests that banning use of technologies and social media websites in the workplace might have an opposite effect on employees’ behaviour, as this study reveals.
The research found that majority of the employees who knowingly ignore these bans were Millennials, aged between 18 and 34.
Robb Orr, vice president of enterprise in Europe at Samsung, said that the current younger generation is showing how workplaces will look like in future. He noted that businesses, however, cannot afford to let their employees ignore corporate security and Internet policies on a routine basis.
Orr also recommends that it should be that employers should not ignore use of social media anymore and must draw clearly-defined boundaries for their employees to follow.
