Source: Personal Tweets Costing Employers $650B – ABC News.

When does twittering at work become frittering away your employer’s time — and money? When your tweets aren’t work-related. Business research firm Basex puts the productivity cost of workplace interruptions, including employee abuse and misuse of social media, at $650 billion a year.

I don’t know of any tweets that would be work related as the above article mentions but then I am by no means a Tweeter expert. As a matter of fact I only very rarely visit that site.  It is hard to believe that it has been almost thirteen years since I left the corporate world. That is several generations in the electronic world so maybe I am just out of it now. But, even though I was surrounded by four different computers I never used them for personal reasons.  I would not even have considered doing personal stuff on my employers time.

To think that companies are losing $650 billion a year because of social media is astounding to me. I know that the tie between employer and employee pretty much imploded in the 1980s but surely there is a feeling of needing to work for the money you are paid?  Is that kind of work ethic gone now?