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AccMan TalkBack: Facebook can’t be costing 233 million hours per month

  • Paul Fabretti · 2 years ago
    I couldn't agree more Dennis. I thought that in this day and age people just COULDN'T get away with appalling excuses for PR as this.

    As for making the numbers up, this kind of tosh is only going to prove that Peninsula don't have a clue what they are talking about!
  • Gavin Heaton · 2 years ago
    Agree ... similar pieces have been run in Australia and in the US. Each time, the articles focus on the fear and ignorance of business managers rather than on the potential for innovation and intelligent activation.

    But as you say, in the war for talent, new employees will be looking more closely at corporate social networking policies (if they exist) ... they seem a strong indicator of innovative corporate and HR practices.
  • Stuart Jones · 2 years ago
    Dennis, I LOVE your comments about Peninsula and thought you may be interested in the fact they made a donation to Hazel Blears to help her campaign for the position of Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. After all you wouldn't want to call a halt to all this mindless employer legislation the Labour Party has introduced would you if you could benefit from it?
  • Dennis Howlett · 2 years ago
    I get it - the blind leading the idiotic - figures.
  • Richard Young · 2 years ago
    When I was a magazine editor and getting mountains of press releases every day - another plus to being freelance - I did have this idea that we'd collect every one of these "British business loses £37m a day to inefficient toilet paper usage" type announcements over a period of a few months. The aim was for total "lost" to raise UK GDP up to the level of competitor nations - Germany first, then Japan - if only UK business would install spyware/monitor employees more closely/buy better toilet paper.

    Never got around to it, of course. It would have taken too much time away from productive work...
  • Stuart Jones · 2 years ago
  • sig · 2 years ago
    Where's my calculator... ah there.

    47% of the UK population works. Average working hours for those are 8 hours 43 minutes or about 174 hours per month.

    If the Facebookers are an average population they should work (3.5 x 0.47 x 174) = 286 million hours per month in total. Of which they spend 233 million hours on Facebook during work hours it seems.

    In other words if you replace PLCs with all work in the UK you would come to that all UK Facebook members spends 7 hours 30 minutes per day and during work hours on Facebook leaving 1 hour 14 minutes to real work, walking the corridors, eating and so forth.

    But of course, it is truly very bad that they spend all that time online on Facebook when on the farm tractor, when conducting the tube, when driving taxis and running Peninsula. Glad I'm not British!

    (Could perhaps explain why the editors cannot calculate either, they spend all their time on Facebook!)
  • Paul Fabretti · 2 years ago
    @sig - great response! shame the fools at Peninsula didn't consider any of this basic maths when they put their press release together.

    Mind you, judging by the comments by a Peninsula employee to my post they are not all rocket scientists anyway.
  • Luis Suarez · 2 years ago
    Hi Dennis! Woooohooo! Nice wrap up post with some really good input, indeed. And regarding your comments about IBM perhaps putting up that study I may take your word on it. I will probably have a look and see if there would be a specific group that conducts this kind of studies and see if they would want to put one up together. I am sure it would be really really interesting. Will keep you posted.

    By the way, you will be happy to read that thanks to disappointing news articles like the one we linked to I am just about to re-open my FB account. Who would have thought, eh? heh

    Stay tuned...