A slap in the Facebook
by Andrew Smith on 31/08/07 at 10:55 am
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Fin24 has an interesting article about Facebook and company policy. Ben Kelly says:
It is clear that Facebook is a popular service among employees. And some managers, clearly favouring the knee-jerk methodology of management, feel that this is impacting the productivity of their minions. So they call up the IT department and get them to block Facebook.
He goes on to describe a potential alternative to outright blocking of Facebook which seems to make sense. Read it here.
If you run a very small business then you don’t have to worry about a "company policy" because it’s probably just you and your partner that need policing. However, some of the principles still apply. In the middle of your work-day, do you let yourself get distracted with social networking, reading sports blogs and sending personal e-mails, or do you have set times for these activities?
Andrew Smith is the pedantic systems guy behind Live Alchemy, a SA e-commerce company. Andrew writes for Ideate in an attempt to make the world a more efficient place. View more articles by Andrew Smith.
