June 12, 2008

Using a messenger helps productivity

There some companies who go out of their way to stop their employees from using all types of social networking and messenger services. This is because it is believed to be detrimental to the ability of the employee to do their jobs efficiently.

But recent research turns all of those concerns on their head as it would seem that employees who are using a messenger system to communicate with colleagues actually improves productivity this is because of the cost effective way of solving problems.

This saves employees wasting time on phone calls or even visiting the work area of someone else, these problems do occur especially in larger organisations, but a business needs to find a way where employees can communicate without the fear of them spending hours on their favourite social networking site.

Source [Hot Hardware]