Workers to be allowed a 10 minute facebook break: Should this be allowed?

definitely NOT. 

Asoke sir, You said it. I cant understand why in India people are considering these types of activities as their previlage in working hours. As you said there is no real working culture.Apart from this, I surprised to see that people are not able to keep the office timings and cursing about traffic jam eventhough they know that everyday it is the same

For an Indian worker .. working in India ... pls allow Mon to Fri for Facebook etc. S/ he may spare some time for office work on some a Saturday/ one or two.

Here, we were/ are basically an agro country. Some just two or three generations back, our fore-fathers were agriculturists. They wanted a 'nap' in the afternoon - used to work only when necessary.

Here, we dont know what is 'work' and what is "Work Culture". Recent boon in IT, BPO and ITES etc have bring us to the lime-light. We treat office as our home Drawing-room and discuss whatever comes in our mind.

For social status, in recent, we have Home-computers but dont touch it when return home .. just feel exhausted for hard-work ( if were sensible, this machine in home was idle for FaceBooks .... away from work, relaxed and spared for very private hrs ).

Sir/s, 10 mnts per day for FaceBook etc. is too littel for us, Indians.

I don't see any value addition that would happen if any employee accessess facebook ( or for that matter any social networking & mail site) for 10 min. Why an employee needs 10 min from his office timing which cannot be done after office hours at leisure from home & at length. Also I am not of the opinion that Indians ( presently ) are so socially starved that 10 min would make huge difference in their social lives. Time to get professional!!!

Firstly a company should know who are the people actually for whom this break is meant and they will come out with the findings that its for those who are a sort of addicted to social networking sites. and now imagine just 10 minutes break for an addictor? had they been using these networking sites for 10 mintues there would not be so much impact on work but the fact of the matter is they spend much more time on them . so just 10 minutes break........its very less..

Several times I have tried to take a facebook break keeping in mind "only for 30 mnts" but could never leave the computer before n hour. That what the addiction of social networking sites are. If companies allow these type of breaks. It will rather effect negatively in their business.

yes I agree with Bhushan. But how to keep track of it using this for certain period of time.

I don't think this will bring much difference. Sites like Facebook and Orkut are complete addiction. Anybody spending most of his time here means he is addicted. So, merely 10 minutes won't make much difference....