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Social Media Can Improve Productivity

Employees see social media as key to improving workplace collaboration, according to a research report based on a survey of finance, HR and IT staff from 160 mid-market UK organisations, carried out to examine changing attitudes to the use of social media as a means of improving productivity. The survey reveals that 86% of organisations currently use social media to market themselves externally and 75% to understand what is being said about them in the public domain, but in contrast, just 17% surveyed are using social media tools to collaborate, share information sources and receive answers to queries internally.

79% of employees believe that social media integration with back-office solutions is essential to improving productivity, employee collaboration at work and streamlining the recruitment processes. Two-thirds of respondents believe that their organisations should be doing more with internal social networks in order to drive employee collaboration and 69% feel that usingfalse

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