Mexico. SAINT Technologies points out why social networks kill the productivity of companies, and if they are not controlled they can end them.
Always being online talking or reading what your acquaintances or strangers do from any device seems like a good idea, however, doing this practice in the office is highly risky for the company, since instead of working time is wasted on nothing, and this, notes lack of productivity that in the short term sees the business diminished.
How many times have we entered our favorite social networks from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube or Snapchat just to write a post or see what our loved one does, and time continues to pass until we realize that we have not advanced in that urgent report that the boss asked us, it is already too late and we do not meet the goal.
A Mexican on average spends 7 hours and 14 minutes connected to the Internet (Study Habits of Internet Users in Mexico 2016, of the Mexican Internet Association, AMIPCI). According to official sources, the average time a worker uses the work network for recreation is 1.4 hours a day.
This need to browse a number of sites, to talk with friends, with the loved one, to pay the bank online, to buy online or to play during working hours has become the preferred activity of the user, who believes that his boss or superior does not realize it, but that, for example, in a company of 25 employees you can have up to a loss of $ 538,326 pesos per year. Here is the example in this simulation:
Now entertainment, the diversity of applications, programs and certain Websites are our obstacle to work as it should, in addition to demanding different bandwidth, which can make it difficult to take advantage of the network.
On the other hand, if the employee is prohibited from driving the Internet in the office, he will surely not like it, so several companies have decided to give them access at their meal time to browse freely, and return to work focused on specific work.
How to control access to social networks quickly and efficiently, in addition to limiting access to any Internet site that the employer wants? Very simple and functional with SAINTBLU Web Filter, an Internet content filtering solution that allows companies to efficiently manage browsing on all devices connected to the network.
The use of the Internet must be restricted or flexible depending on the type of activity performed; for example, the Marketing department can have access to social networks, however, if Sales needs to have a video conference, then the bandwidth is limited to the rest of the departments so that there are as few failures as possible, explains Gabriel Cuervo, CEO and General Director of SAINT Technologies.
Against this background, every day more companies adapt the functionalities of SAINTBLU Web Filter:
- Control of Facebook and social networks. You can control access to social networks quickly and efficiently, as well as limit access to any Internet site you want.
- Navigation reports. Get browsing reports on your employees' Internet usage.
- Bandwidth optimization. It streamlines browsing and saves waiting time, eliminates high bandwidth consumption or limits internet speed to a specific group of people in your company.
- Internet usage policies. With easy management tools like blacklist, whitelist, and time control, you can enforce your organization's acceptable Internet use policies.
Undoubtedly, social networks are good for those who know how to use them in a timely manner, but they are not useful for most areas in an office, so every day there are more companies that join the adoption of the SAINT Technologies solution, whose cost is so accessible that in less than a year the investment is recovered – as in the case we analyzed of 25 employees.
