{"id":1635,"date":"2011-06-03T13:38:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T21:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2011-06-03T13:43:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T21:43:31","slug":"european-workers-more-social-but-not-necessarily-less-productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/european-workers-more-social-but-not-necessarily-less-productive\/","title":{"rendered":"European Workers: More Social, But Not (Necessarily) Less Productive"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently published data that analyzed application activity <\/a>in more than 1,250 organizations worldwide and confirmed what most assumed to be the case: that Facebook is indeed the dominant player in social networking, consuming 87% of all social networking bandwidth observed. However, what was somewhat surprising is that social networking has not slowed the usage of webmail (personal use email) or IM. Quite the contrary, in fact, compared with 12 months ago these application categories are very healthy with IM traffic, as a percentage of overall traffic more than doubling; while webmail increased nearly 5 fold.<\/p>\n

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Our data (the largest sample ever published) also refutes a few assumptions:<\/p>\n