The issue of web access in the workplace keeps being debated. Where will we end up? Employers want to stop employees from using work time to goof around on social media sites. Younger employees feel they are not able to be as productive as they could be without access to the tools they are used to and find alternative ways to get what they want (using their own internet-enabled phones). Can we take a different approach or is the collision here to stay? This article does a great job of describing some of the issues:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009458359_apustecblockedofficeinternet.html
What are your thoughts?
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See this article for some excellent points in this debate:
http://www.krishnade.com/blog/2008/the-worlds-best-places-to-work-encourage-social-networking/
Posted on July 14th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Amazing….now Best Buy is requiring employees to have Twitter accounts with a certain number of followers. Doesn’t really make sense to me:
http://chris.pirillo.com/can-a-company-take-social-networking-too-far/
Posted on July 15th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Depends on the job. If the employee needs to understand the technology, it does make sense. I wonder if company’s who require employees to Tweet provide them the time to do so at work, while on the clock or if only exempt employees have such a requirement.
Posted on August 3rd, 2009 at 10:34 pm
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