A survey of more than 3,000 people by the health and safety consultancy Protecting.co.uk found 95% of workers have used company time and equipment to look up exes on websites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, despite having smartphones and computers of their own.
The reasons given range from longing for a second chance to some just being “curious”.
The nationwide survey found some regional variations, with 97% of workers in Leeds admitting their had used social media to see how former partners were doing, while in Bristol the number was slightly lower at 91%.
One person surveyed admitted to spending four hours a month scrolling through social media feeds, while the average was around 1.5 hours.
“We understand that it can be difficult during a break-up but this type of social media se – and the time it takes away from the employee doing their actual job – is costing employers on average £15 per person,” said Protecting.co.uk’s head of employment law, Chris Hall.
“When you multiply that by the number of lovesick workers using company computers to check up on their exes, that’s billions of pounds each year.”
In this episode of the Safety & Health Podcast, ‘Burnout, stress and being human’, Heather Beach is joined by Stacy Thomson to discuss burnout, perfectionism and how to deal with burnout as an individual, as management and as an organisation.
We provide an insight on how to tackle burnout and why mental health is such a taboo subject, particularly in the workplace.
