Is Facebook Killing Your Business?

At a CEO breakfast a few days ago, a business owner expressed frustration with Facebook. He said that many of his employees were spending too much of their work day on Facebook and asked us for some ideas on how he might rectify this problem. Most of the ideas involved monitoring of employees’ Internet usage, while a few questioned whether they weren’t actually on Facebook working. My favorite, though, was from a past NY Report contributor (who I won’t mention by name), who said, and I paraphrase, “if my employees have time to spend on sites like Facebook, then I’m not doing my job. They clearly don't have enough work to do, or definitive goals."