To prevent employees from being distracted by socializing, especially among sociable employees, consider the following methods: 1. **Clear work goals and schedule**: Make sure each employee is clear about their work goals and tasks, and set a clear schedule. This can help employees focus on completing tasks. 2. **Set social time**: Encourage employees to socialize during specific time periods, such as lunch time or break time. This can balance work and socializing and reduce distractions during work time. 3. **Create a focus environment**: Optimize the office environment, set up quiet areas, reduce noise distractions, and provide personal office space to facilitate employees to focus on work. 4. **Establish social norms**: Establish appropriate social norms within the company, such as limiting non-work-related chats or use of social media during work hours. 5. **Training time management skills**: Provide time management and self-management training to help employees better arrange the relationship between work and socializing. 6. **Regular performance evaluation**: Conduct regular performance evaluations to help employees realize the potential impact of socializing and encourage them to improve their work methods. 7. **Incentive mechanism**: Set up a reward mechanism related to work performance to encourage employees to improve work efficiency, thereby naturally reducing unnecessary social time. Through these measures, employees’ social needs and work tasks can be effectively balanced to improve work efficiency.