organizational behavior presentation slide share: cyberloafing & gossiping

How a Lot of Employees Cheat a Little at Work.Natasha Brodoski, Joshua Haghighi, Mason Payonk, Zhenxuan Shao

for personal reasons

Employee’s cheat at work by using company time

These personal reasons include:

Cyberloafing Gossiping&

Cyberloafing

WHat is it?

it happens here...everyday!

Employees should be doing this.

But instead their doing this...

Between 60% to 80% of employees Cyberloaf

And only 67% of an employee

workday is productive

Is spent per year by companies on wasted computer resources and...

77% of employees

check Facebook on a daily basis

Plus 49% of employees spend time online shopping during the

holiday season

77% of engaged women use work hours

to plan their weddings

Even more shocking….

20% of men watch pornography at work!

How is this cheating at work?

$4,500 is the cost per employee per year a company loses

That’s $4,500 per year for an employee

to surf the web

ANOTHER WORKPLACE ISSUE?

GOSSIP.WHILE IT MAY SEEM LIKE IDLE CHAT,

IT CAN VERY WELL BE WORKPLACE

A recent survey shows….

21% of workers regularly gossip

15% occasionally gossip

86% gossip about corporate challenges

The average employee sends and receives 112 emails every work day.

About 1 in 7 of those emails could be considered gossip

AS IT INCREASES CONFLICT, GOSSIP IN THE OFFICE

DECREASES EMPLOYEE MORALE.

THIS CAN STRAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND MORE

IMPORTANTLY, CAUSE

LOSSOF TRUST.

As well as cause strain on teamwork & employee

productivity

Decreases Professionalism While people suck in Gossips

In the end...you get paid to

Not to do

either one of these...

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