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"Are you one of the lucky employees whose job revolves around social media? Then stay logged in to Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. If not, your social media recreation could be costing the U.S. economy $650 billion per year \u2014 or $4,452 per company.\n\nSEE ALSO: 70% of Employees Regularly Work Out of the Office\nYou may think it's harmless to check a tweet or respond to a personal message on Facebook, but it will take you 23 minutes to get back on track. A social media interruption occurs every 10.5 minutes on average, and people waste 41% of that time on Facebook.\nThe infographic below, from Learn Stuff, contains more information about how social media destroys productivity.\n\nThumbnail image courtesy of iDream_in_Infrared"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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