Thinking of restricting your employees' social media access while they're on the clock? Think again. Recent research from Robert Half and the Univeristy of Melbourne suggests that allowing employees to use the Internet for web surfing and social networking actually helps them be MORE productive, as this graphic demonstrates. Why? Sometimes just taking a few minutes to unwind can help reset your brain and make you fresh to start in again on that massive project that was due yesterday.

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