Hardlywork.in Lets You Secretly Read Facebook At Work

It's Murphy's Law: The minute you load Facebook on your work browser, your boss will visit your desk to see what you're up to and you'll surely be cemented in his or her mind as a lazy, social-network obsessed young thing.

But now there's a solution -- the website Hardlywork.in, which ingeniously converts your Facebook newsfeed into what resembles an excel spreadsheet, so you can keep up with social news while appearing productive.

Yale computer science major Bay Gross, 20, said he came up with the idea for the site after a friend of his doing a government internship told him that she couldn't read links he shared on Facebook at work. After spending about 15 hours developing the site, Gross launched it Sunday night, and it's already amassing 10,000 unique visitors per day.

In an email to the Huffington Post, Gross gave us an update on his friend with the government internship: She told him all the interns at her job are using the site now. "Mission accomplished," wrote Gross.

(h/t Under the Button)

Comments

[waderx]

11:48 AM on 08/11/2011

Site is currently overloaded [I guess] . This doesn't "help" if you cannot download at work..

[Iruma Harazuki]

02:38 AM on 07/06/2011

Halooo Every Body

[armstrong st]

08:34 AM on 07/04/2011

How can a person efficiently work if he/she gets on Facebook, I wonder? Maybe they should think of allocating some time each day, say 30 minutes, to the employees to check their pages instead of using some sneaky ways? They might introduce it as a bonus to the best employees.

Steve from www.essaytask.com

[knowledgenotebk]

11:37 PM on 07/02/2011

Bad idea. Why taking an internship if you don't intend to perform? And if the job is boring why not pick another one?

[cavekarst]

03:20 PM on 07/02/2011

Like, FACEBOOK and the NationalSarcasmSociety.com need attention.

[Kevin1961]

09:14 AM on 07/02/2011

Ok, so if you use Hardlywork.in you have to give them rights to all your facebook information, right? Now this third party guy has all your stuff and can sell it to advertisers, etc? Am I not understanding this correctly? Because it sounds like a cool idea. I just don't want someone being able to access my private information just so I can make my FB look like a spreadsheet.

[Pastori Balele]

08:39 AM on 07/02/2011

Please don't waste employer's time for personal entertainment. Reading FaceBook can be addictive and one day you will be caught and fired. We do not want to lose you.

[Coastal Exchange]

08:16 AM on 07/02/2011

This is officially the first facebook app I've ever installed !

[riverkwai1]

07:42 AM on 07/02/2011

Leave it to HP to provide an article on how to get paid to not work.

[lauram]

09:44 AM on 07/02/2011

Yeah, cause no one ever works from home - checking email, finishing a report. Nope, that never happens.

[Silviu Claponea]

09:36 AM on 07/04/2011

yeap

[GCurry]

07:19 AM on 07/02/2011

Maybe it's cause I'm a boomer, but FB is tedious to me. I have allowed myself to be "friended" by distant family (wife's ex-husband) or ghosts from the past (HS classmates) who think FB is Twitter and who post stream-of-consciousness stuff constantly, or a blog to dump their musings into.

Is there any way to turn them back into the kind of friend you were glad to hear from once a year? :-O

[EvilRabbit]

02:29 AM on 07/02/2011

So the way to outsmart the IT guys at work who are looking for people who aren't working.....is to long onto a site called HARDLYWORK.IN.

Brilliant.

[SwingingFromCenter]

02:15 AM on 07/02/2011

And any competent IT department that didn't already know about this site will have an access-list configured blocking access to the site first thing Tuesday morning...

[Coastal Exchange]

08:18 AM on 07/02/2011

yeah, I wouldn't/can't use this at work but it's just cool

[RisingPhoenix]

12:32 AM on 07/02/2011

Meh, big deal. I work for a next generation firewall company and this will be blocked by next week (if it hasn't been already). We'll just see an application signature, either for Facebook itself (already easily blockable), or we will just write a custom sig for hardlywork.in. Your company is paying you to be productive, not a leach. Facebook on your own time, work at work. Not rocket science....

[lauram]

09:47 AM on 07/02/2011

People "work" at "work" and they "work" at "home". THere is no difference these days w/availability of systems from home. Bosses should pay for results - not hours in the seat.

[rasso]

06:23 PM on 08/24/2011

Precisely. Manning your post at a computer job is an especially antique idea. Your boss can IM/email you for requests/updates and otherwise ignore you face-to-face no matter where you are.

[appalling]

12:07 AM on 07/02/2011

Just use your facebook ap on your smartphone.

[catbutt]

07:39 AM on 07/02/2011

Really?

The restaurant where I work at has a cell phone policy that states " ... Any use of a cell phone while on the clock WILL result in termination..." and "...In the event of an emergency, the employee MUST show that the cell phone usage was related to that event..."

My employer calls cell phone usage at work: employee theft.
I agree with them...

[rasso]

06:25 PM on 08/24/2011

This article is referring to an office environment. Restaurant employees are rarely stationed in front of a computer with Internet access all day.

[Adjustment Bureau]

11:44 PM on 07/01/2011

This information tip must have come directly from the floor of the US Congress!