老板发明了新方法防治上网开小差~

20160829ou一中两外锵锵三人行 今日话题： 老板发明了新方法防治上网开小差 LW: Now we move on to the topic of cyberloafing. NL: Electronic bread? LW: No. It’s not electronic bread. Although that is brilliant. You came up with that on very short notice and under a lot of pressure. Cyberloafing is basically procrastinating on the internet. But also, you look like you’re loafing but you’ve got maybe four or five browsers open, so if someone walks behind you, you could quickly switch to another tab, so it doesn’t look like you’re wasting people’s time. A study that was done in 2014, but that has only recently gained a lot of traction, showed that 30 – 40 percent of internet use at work is non-work related, and survey’s also showed that 82 percent of employees send non-work related e-mails and that cyberloafing was the most common distraction at work. WY: If I’m doing some research about some movie that I was going to talk about later, and then suddenly I saw another interesting movie – all of a sudden – I’m reading the inscriptions and what did they do. Suddenly, I’m reading the gossip about a certain role, and then about her husband and then some gossip about him. NL: I think You You has hit the nail on the head. The links on articles are the killer. Maybe you’re scrolling through something that is related to your work, or is in the first place, and you’ll open that thinking ‘that’s interesting’ you’ll go back to the first article, and then I’ll get stuck in the second one, and within that one there are links to something else. WY: It’s like its trying to be helpful, the computers, but the usefulness can cause harm. It just depends on how you use it. LW: That is absolutely one hundred percent true. Some companies are actually starting to address this. There is a company; Jeremy Glassman is the name of the man who invented [a system] from Arizona state, and the system totally blocks sites that eats up a company’s bandwidth. And it gives a warning message that you need to work more often or someone might come and see you. The system allowed employees to browse leisure sites for ten minutes at a time, and up 90 minutes in total on any given day, NL: Over the course of one day to have wasted 90 minutes; I would hope I’m not wasting that much time. LW: What about you You-You? WY: I think after all this is all just about self-discipline. I think that as an adult, all the employers and workers, they can control themselves. You say that this is more like a distraction. But what about putting an apple on your desk, some snacks on your table, you might be distracted. And if you’re talking to someone, like your friends on your cellphone, that can be a distraction as well. There can be lots of distractions during your working time, so that is not simply an excuse. I think there’s nothing that can be called cyber loafing, there is simply distraction or no distraction LW: Break it up into hour segments or something, or even less you can break it up into half an hour segments. 20 minutes of hard work and then 5 minutes of social media time and then 10 minutes of social media time, or however long your attention span is. That way it’s pretty simple to do.