ED Staff average 12 minutes of every hour on Facebook

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Specializes in Critical Care.

An interesting study on facebook use by ED staff.

Oddly, facebook use was the highest when the ED was the busiest, which I assumed was due to increased staff and the higher use was a cumulative finding, not per worker, but it turns out I was wrong. When the ED is slowest, staff spent about 4 minutes per hour on facebook, when it was the busiest staff spend almost 20 minutes per hour on facebook per staff member.

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Specializes in LTC Rehab Med/Surg.

De-stressor? I find mindless surfing on the internet to be calming.

Call me weird:rolleyes:

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Rats. I am below average. I'll try harder.

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Specializes in Acute Care Cardiac, Education, Prof Practice.

I wonder if any of those minutes could be FB pages left open in the background while other matters are dealt with. So XXX employee was on FB and then got busy and left it up in another browser.

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Specializes in Oncology.

I haven't read the actual study but I read on a blog that each time anyone logged in at all they counted it as a minimum of 3 minutes. Seeing as I sometimes log on and see that I have no new notifications and immediately get off, this could easily add 2 minutes and 30 seconds multipled across the board. I also wonder about time spent running in the background.

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Specializes in Critical Care.
I wonder if any of those minutes could be FB pages left open in the background while other matters are dealt with. So XXX employee was on FB and then got busy and left it up in another browser.

They counted any access of facebook as 3 minutes, so what might have actually been 2 minutes was counted as 3, but at the same time what might have actually been 10 is also only counted as 3. I think assuming that every time someone accesses facebook, they are only looking at for 3 minutes is probably a pretty conservative estimate.

What I find most surprising is that is only facebook and that is an average for every staff member, not just those that use facebook, which means that for everyone like myself who doesn't access facebook from work, there had to be someone else who spent 24 minutes per hour. Even though I don't look at facebook at work, I do look at mlb.com and some others. So I wonder what the total internet surfing time is since it must be more than 12 minutes per hour.

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Specializes in CICU.

Really? Anyone remember work before the internet? how the heck did people goof off then?

We had to fax jokes between locations.. I even remember my dad bringing home xeroxed jokes from his warehouse.

Back in my cubicle days, i was guilty of too much internet surfing. These days, there is just too much to get done.

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Specializes in Emergency.

Ok, I read the whole thing and it seems as if the 12/19.8/4.3 minutes per hour were cumulative, ie: everyone in the department combined added up to that number. This would mean that on average 4 people accessed Facebook each hour in that department and spent an unknown amount of time on the site.

That's a lot more believable to me, still not good to be accessing Facebook on a work terminal during work time, but nowhere near as heinous as people spending 20 minutes an hour on Facebook during the busy times.

I would think the higher number of Facebook hits on nightshift would reflect more people logging on for a quick check (much less likely to be caught by management on nights, might make people bolder) and not necessarily more time actually spent browsing.

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Really? Anyone remember work before the internet? how the heck did people goof off then?

We had to fax jokes between locations.. I even remember my dad bringing home xeroxed jokes from his warehouse.

Back in my cubicle days, i was guilty of too much internet surfing. These days, there is just too much to get done.

Well back then a lot of folks had better web connections at work than at home - and better machines. Now I can take an iPad to work and surf literally under the radar, five times as fast. I love it.

Where exactly do all of y'all think I am right now? :geek::shy:

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Emergency, CEN.
Really? Anyone remember work before the internet? how the heck did people goof off then?

We had to fax jokes between locations.. I even remember my dad bringing home xeroxed jokes from his warehouse.

Back in my cubicle days, i was guilty of too much internet surfing. These days, there is just too much to get done.

Soltaire. 'Nuff said. :cheeky:

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Uh oh... I'm one of those crazy people that do not have Facebook! I usually play games on my phone during downtime, when I'm busy ny phone doesn't get checked for hours!

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Specializes in ED.

Call me crazy, but I don't go on facebook, the internet or play phone games at work. I keep the ringer off on my phone and only check it if I have break time or the occasional times I run to the bathroom. I guess it comes from working back before we had the internet or cell phones. The whole world didn't stop if we didn't know what everyone on facebook was having for dinner. Also, if someone wanted to call me while I was at work, they could leave a message on the machine and I would check it when I got home. It amazes me how people today are so dependent on their technology, they can't leave it alone enough to work, especially when they are busy. It drives me nuts to see coworkers texting and checking their phones every ten minutes at work. PUT IT AWAY!! It is unprofessional. Trust me, life will go on if you don't update your status every hour.

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