The rage of social media --- texting, Facebook, on-line
shopping, on-line banking and bill paying has cost employers millions of
dollars in paid out wages to employees playing on the job. Profits are lost due
to a decrease in productivity. In addition to paying current wages, employers
have been forced to hire specialist to track employee quality and quantity of
work, as well as, invest in Spyware to make sure that the time employees spend
on-line is for business purposes.
In analyzing
how much employee cell phone usage cost an employer. An example of 10 employees
who earn $15 an hour that check their cell phones for 3 minutes every other
hour on an 8-hour shift. (3 minutes multiplied by 4 times a day= 12 minutes).
Those 10 employees multiplied by 12 minutes daily= 120 minutes total then
multiplied by 5 days a week= 600 minutes or 10 hours, which equals $150 dollars
a week. Yearly the cumulative cost for those 10 employees checking and
responding to email and Facebook for one year is a staggering $7,800 dollars in
lost wages and 520 hours in lost productivity. Believe it or not the above
example of an employee using only 12 minutes a day used for social media is
extremely conservative.
What do you
think your employees are doing on their phones?
Don’t let that be a company expense.
Cell phones in the work place are a major distraction for employees,
which create not only losses in payroll and productivity, but also create an
unsafe work environment as well. Cell phones are hurting both large and small
companies. In order to put money back into your company start by saving money
on your business landlines by choosing Business Network Long Distance as an
alternative long-distance provider.
