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Abstract-We designed and implemented a Productivity Enhancing Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) System that encourages collaboration among staff and management to solve the problem of sub-optimal productivity in the workplace. Through this medium, reward for high flying staff can be announced to the whole enterprise thereby encouraging others to work harder. The Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology was adopted in this work. The new system built on HTML, CSS, JavaScript (using the JQuery library), Ajax, PHP and MySQL offers free and open source implementation options when compared to some other applications within the same category that drain finances to implement. Usability evaluation showed an average ease of use of 78% and indicated the site is efficient. An average overall satisfaction rating of 65% was obtained from usability evaluation participants. The developed system helps improve social collaboration among staff and as a result, workplace productivity in the enterprise