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Top workplace distraction revealed

Top workplace distraction revealed

Facebook has been revealed as one of the top five workplace distractions in a new survey.

Interact has released a new flash survey. The respondents to the flash survey consisted of a mix of C-suite executives, HR professionals and other workers.

The results reveal that Facebook was seen as one of the most prominent workplace distractions with 19.6% of respondents seeing it as one of the biggest office time wasters. You can find the full list below.

Nigel Williams is the Head of Customer Insights at Interact. Speaking exclusively to HR Grapevine, he says that the results made him “quite surprised”.

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