Hard At Work: Twitter Use In The Office Up 700% Since 2010 [STATS]

Employees might not literally be asleep on the job, but as far as their employers are concerned, they might as well be: they’re tweeting a massive 700% more now than a year ago, and unless they’re tweeting about company news, that can’t be good for productivity.

Digital security company Palo Alto Networks took a look at traffic data from over 1,600 enterprises over the past year to see how employees were spending their time at work.

The study found sharp increases in the amount of time spent tweeting and updating statuses on company time.

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