Technology has been incredible in increasing efficiency for businesses. Blackberries and laptops allow people to do work from outside the office, the Internet has created a global market, and social networking sites have enabled people all over the world to communicate. And though these innovations are incredible, they have created plenty of distractions, for the average person.
I once heard that the combination of fantasy football and march madness have cost businesses billions of dollars in downtime. It would not shock me to hear that Facebook costs even more. It's interesting to see in an office, when you walk by computer screens, how many people are doing work and how many are on external sites.
Then of course, there is the worst distraction of all, porn. Pornographic sites occupy over one third of the Internet. And though there are plenty of spam and website blocking technologies, there are just way too many sites, and ways around the blockers.
Businesses have taken many measures to stop these distractions, by blocking certain sites, and even spying on a persons search history. Though that is very illegal and an invasion of ones privacy, a company should have the right to see what a person is doing with company property and on company time. Though one can't expect to have employees focused on their work for 8 hours a day without wanting to take a break, these distractions cost companies way too much in downtime and can cause a lot of harm to a company.
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