IF YOU’RE reading this at work right now, you could be at risk of being fired.

New figures reveal Aussie businesses are cracking down hard on web use at work, whether it’s Facebook or Twitter, banking or catching up on the news.

A survey by consumer research company Canstar Blue reveals one in three small business owners are so fed up with their staff’s misuse of the net that they have banned social media at work.

The crackdown is understandable when you consider that more than a third of young people are spending more than three hours a day surfing the net when they should be working, according to the findings. One in five said they spent more than four hours online a day.