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"Facebook surfers may cost their bosses" - but look who is doing the survey

August 20, 2007 – 7:17 pm

Today CNET published an article claiming that Facebook could cost employers as much as $4 billion (yes, thats BILLION) dollars per year.
Internet security company SurfControl looked at the phenomenon and found that Australian workers who keep a close watch on their Facebook profile page were cumulatively costing their employers up to 5 billion Australian dollars [...]

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