Network Box also found that Facebook consumes a significant portion of business bandwidth: 4.5% of all bandwidth. However, YouTube reigns supreme in that department, accounting for 10% of all business bandwidth used. An accompanying survey showed that 43% respondents are concerned about this seemingly excessive use of social media in the workplace.

Facebook certainly appears to dominate business users’ attention while at work so are you really happy paying for employees to be looking at Facebook?

If previous findings that Facebook is the fourth largest destination site for news are accurate, then perhaps we can safely assume that in-office use of Facebook is for more than just social networking.

Top five websites visited by businesses:

• 1. Facebook – 6.8 per cent of all traffic
• 2. Google – 3.4 per cent of all traffic
• 3. Yimg (Yahoo!’s image server) – 2.8 per cent of all traffic
• 4. Yahoo – 2.4 per cent of all traffic
• 5. Doubleclick – 1.7 per cent of all traffic