Premium Internet Service Caps Social Media Use at Work

 

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Exponential-e, the next-generation network and applications provider has announced that its revolutionary new business Internet solution, launched in May, automatically provides employers with the ability to cap employee use of social networking sites without the need for any additional hardware. The announcement is in response to a recent survey stating that whilst many companies are keen to allow their employees access to such sites, social media costs the UK economy up to £14bn in lost work time. PowerNGNplus is a powerful, non contended business-class Internet service.

Uniquely it has the built-in ability to enable customers to identify and manage the performance of each application running across it. As a result, social media traffic can be managed individually and their usage tightly controlled.
Research by MyjobGroup.co.uk has revealed that social media surfing now equates to significant amounts of lost work time with nearly two million workers spending over an hour per day on sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.
Many businesses however resist an outright ban citing the motivational aspects of granting access to their employees. MyJobGroup call, however, for businesses to monitor the use of social networking sites during work hours.

Businesses who buy their Internet services from Exponential-e now can. Lee Wade, Managing Director, Exponential-e said: “Our Internet service includes the ability to manage the performance of individual applications it supports via a customer portal. So customers might choose to squeeze the amount of bandwidth they allocate to social media sites. Of course, usage can also be blocked totally if that’s what the business requires”. Lee adds: “PowerNGNplus is a vital tool in helping businesses retain productivity levels without being seen as killjoys. The service also lets companies identify when their employees are using the Internet at work to download content under copyright – an area facing increasing scrutiny since the passing of the Digital Economy Act”.

PowerNGNplus helps businesses understand how their Internet is being used and enables them to control the performance of the different application its supports. Delivered from Exponential-e’s core network cloud, clients plug PowerNGNplus directly into their LAN without the burden of costly hardware.

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IT departments in dark over social media use – Information Age

UK IT departments losing the social media security ‘power struggle’ – Continutity Central