Productivity | Staff trawl social media for 13 hours per week

UK employees spend an average of 13 hours on social media at work per week, according to new research from Croner.

Whether that time is spent glued to Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, the study of 1,300 UK employees found that 57% favoured social media surfing between 3pm and 5pm in the afternoon.

Instagram appeared to be the platform of choice (36%) with 32% preferring to trawl through Facebook (32%) and 22% spending the majority of their time on Twitter.

“The number of business owners calling our employment advice line about social media use in the workplace has risen considerably over the past five years."