Social media have become an important part of our lives and have in almost every way influenced all segments of our society. For many companies they have become regularity and are considered as an important means of personal and organisational communication, however, the usage of social media has brought to the companies and organizations benefits, as well as challenges. Influence of usage of social media on productivity of employees has become a modern research phenomenon, regarding which theoreticians have opposing opinions: some of them believe that the usage of social media in the workplace has a positive effect on the productivity of employees, while the others claim that this may lead to presenteeism. This means that an employee is present in the workplace, but does his job inefficiently, which leads to productivity reduction. Because this sphere is quite unexplored in Slovenia, I used survey questionnaires to reveal the way in which employees use social media in the workplace and how does this affect their productivity. These findings, substantiated with theoretical basis in the area of social media, absenteeism and productivity, represent a contribution to the literature on productivity in the workplace related to social media.
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