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shun new technology
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By Chris Tindall HAULAGE COMPANIES are constantly looking for ways to increase efficiency and profit, and their quest for time saving now stretches into cyberspace, according to a study by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).
The survey found that employers in transport and logistics see inter-net activity as a "massive timewaster", with 86% blocking inappropriate websites and 5% imposing curfews on in temet use.
As a result, 10% of employees in the sector believe their firm is a "dinosaur" when it comes to accepting new technology, and more than half think their company waits too long before adopting new technology.
In contrast, the majority of respondents all aged under 35 said they used the interne for professional development (67%), and 48% said it was useful for research. Just 39% of managers focused on its use as a social space for sites such as Facebook or MySpace.
Ordnance Survey HR director Jan Hutchinson says: -The low level adoption of technology is in tandem with employers' beliefs that interne use is a time waster. It's something that must be looked at because the longer this situation is allowed to remain unchallenged, the greater the likelihood UK employers will fall behind international competitors."
A spokeswoman for the CMI adds: "Organisations need to harness the comfort levels these individuals have with interne-based resources, because failure to do so will lead to frustration and the loss of top talent at best, or worse, an open door for rivals to build an advantage through a better equipped workforce."