Enterprise Social Network Impact and Information Overload Analysis

This report explores the impact of Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) on organizational productivity and information overload. It begins by introducing the role of social media in the workplace and highlights the increasing adoption of ESNs. The report then discusses how ESNs can enhance innovation, creativity, and productivity while potentially mitigating information overload. However, it also acknowledges that ESNs can sometimes exacerbate information overload, leading to stress and decreased employee efficiency. The conclusion summarizes that ESNs play a vital role in improving organizational efficiency, but their impact on information overload requires careful management. The report references key research on the subject, providing a comprehensive analysis of ESN's benefits and challenges.

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Introduction
The following report is all about enterprise social networks with the query that it provides
increase in production or information overload. Social media has played an important role in the
work place of various organizations (Aral, Brynjolfsson and Van Alstyne, 2012). A report stated
that ESN is expected to be implemented in more than 70% of the organization by the year 2017
(Oldroyd and Morris, 2012). ESN helps in increasing the knowledge of various workers working
in different organization round the globe.
Discussion
Enterprise Social Network (ESN) promotes certain action like accelerating innovation,
improving creativeness and developing productivity and performance of various companies. It
also reduces the problem of information overload for their employees which is caused by many
messages and which results in full inbox. Information overload not only results in causing stress
and bad decision making on the contrary it also increases drain of employees (Oldroyd and
Morris, 2012). ESN can aim to increase productivity and decrease the overload of information
while on the contrary in some cases it can be stressful and time consuming to the employees of
various firms (Aral, Brynjolfsson and Van Alstyne, 2012). In some cases, ESN may increase the
overload of information as many users perform various activities through new inputs and edits on
the provided platform.
Conclusion
From the above discussion it can be concluded that ESN plays a vital role in improving
the efficiency of various organization in some cases while on the contrary in some cases in can
overloading of information which ultimately leads to drainage of employee productivity. ESN
mainly aims to reduce the information overload for various employees of a company. The impact
of different forms of ESN usage and its impact on productivity or information overload has been
discussed in the report.
Reference
Aral, S., Brynjolfsson, E. and Van Alstyne, M., 2012. Information, technology, and information
worker productivity. Information Systems Research, 23(3-part-2), pp.849-867.
Oldroyd, J.B. and Morris, S.S., 2012. Catching falling stars: A human resource response to social
capital's detrimental effect of information overload on star employees. Academy of Management
Review, 37(3), pp.396-418.