Jose Amoros

If while you work, surf the Internet are more productive in your work

// April 4th, 2009 // 1 How » // Facebook, Internet, Internet-Productivity, News, Social Networks

This time Changes in the Red Day by Day, return to show the relationship between Internet use at work and productivity that this fact implies. A few months ago relatavamos study which showed that the great loss of time involved the use of Facebook in the workplace to the point that it became a Facebook en un “thief of time” digital.

This time is the opposite, according to a study by University of Melbourne, Internet browsing distracted looking for leisure reading an increase in the level of concentration and increases user productivity levels.

Pleasantly Browse increases worker productivity while

Those who surf the Internet to distract at work – for a reasonable time limit to setting quantified 20% time remaining in his job – are more productive in a 9% more than those colleagues who do not.

Dr. Brent Coker, in a study 300 workers showed that 70% of them, used the internet at work performing NPIT (Pleasant browsing the Internet while working) practical concerns such, find information about products or eg,read news online news portals. Other practices such as playing online games won fifth place and watch videos on YouTube marked the seventh.

The attraction is performing NPIT, according to Dr. Coker can be attributed to lack of concentration of people. “People need to unwind a bit to refocus again. The same applies if this actually happens in the workplace itself. Make a small “break”a bit like browsing the Internet in search of distraction helps relax the mind resulting in a total increase of net concentration level of the individual during a day's work, fact that an increase of labor productivity itself”.

That if, do not we take it at the bottom of the letter and to make NPIT can not apply to thoseusers addicted to the Internet at workwhich, according to Dr. Coker may have opposite effect. "Make NPIT is not as beneficial for this group of people – those who behave with addictive tendencies Internet have lower productivity levels to those who are not. "

In Spain every Internet is increasingly used for leisure time

// January 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // The Future of the Web

U.S. users are spending more time on Internet, daily and weekly. Access from home has exceeded access from the workplace during 2008, according to the company Harris Interactive. It is hoped that this trend will continue during the 2009, while an incessant number of unemployed people use the internet to find work,education or training.

Ranking of countries where users navigate their leisure time

Even people who are following the economic crisis spend more time reading news about more frequently.

But, North American citizens are no more sailing in his spare time. This distinction is for the Chinese Internet users, who spent the 44% of their leisure time to use the Internet during 2008, as sources TNS Global. The company found that Americans are ranked fifth worldwide, a 30% spent their free time to browse online-virtual tie with Italy (31%), Spain and Australia (29% each).

The United States is expected to rise in the rankings in coming years. Since 2001, the amount of time Americans devote to sail during the week has doubled, the 7 horas a 14 hours. The annual telephone survey carried out by Harris Interactive revealed that the average hours of Internet use grew slowly between 2001 and 2006, but took off in the 2007 and increased much more rapidly in 2008.

Evolution of Internet usage in recent years

Internet use from home saw a dramatic change during that time, as USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future. Its annual survey found that North American Internet users spent an average of 15.3 hours a week to be online during the 2007, compared with 9 hours last year.