Corporations and Social Media

What kind of policy does your company have?

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Education

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• Corporations
• Management
• Social Media Policy

[Ozzman500]

I'd like to believe that my employees would practice a little self control and not spend more than a few minutes during the work day on social media websites. The impetus for my imposing restrictions would be if the employees under me had proven that they couldn't limit their time on those sites, and it was effecting their work. but would certainly give them a chance to prove they won't take advantage of the lack of internet restriction.

[tlg847]

That's a very rational approach. Your people are there to work and if their work is suffering then managing that problem is your first priority. Abusing social media is only one of many ways that people can fail! Thanks.

[1madaboutguitar]

The bottom line is, if you were in charge of a corperation where half of your staff wasted 2hrs of paid work time, per day, on fbook +twitter, your going to be a bit pissed off aren't you?

[tlg847]

Absolutely. My question would be: what kind of management do you have in place that would make it appealing for employees to wast 2 hours/day? Abusing social media sites is a symptom of a deeper problem. Thanks.

[SSanf]

Maybe, because when people are at work they are supposed to be working and making a profit for their time renter, not socializing.

[tlg847]

Of course. The point, for me, is that managing people to deliver results is the key to profitability. Micromanaging behavior rarely works, especially in cases of needing workforce creativity. There are a lot of other ways for poor performing employees to waste time besides FB and Twitter.

[AVDJ]

I think that corporations may need to restrict the use of public social media in some cases. One example would be in cases where the corporation is bound to keep the health information of its employees confidential. There is a fine line between the use of the computer as a work tool and a social tool, and the consequences of mixing those up could be detrimental. That being said, I believe that down the road, the fine line will become more blurred.

[tubeeorrnottubee]

How HAVe you been, Tom?!

I've been missing your great questions out there in offline life of late!;) ... This one, ironically, is a perfect one to come back with! I love fantasizing, "If I were in charge...". lol

If I were head of a corporation, I think I'd be a tough ol' bird -- I'd have a little chat with my employees letting them know: "The company computers are monitered for staff peak efficiancy. Please be aware non-work activity is recorded~ 'kyou".

[achampag]

why would i bother posting right now?? sigh.

[mikma]

mikma was here

[mikma]

comments missing no replies Oh is You Tube going back to their roots

[KlaxonCow]

So you erroneously try to "override" your own biology and make yourself work, even when you can feel, inside your own skull, that you're not really focussed, you're not really taking things in 100% and, in truth, you're mentally incapable of working at your best and most productive.

[KlaxonCow]

Your own personal experience should confirm this - how often, after a hard morning's work, does the afternoon just become a haze, where you're just "treading water" work-wise until it's time to go home?

You've been there. You implicitly know this is true. Your own biology tells you this.

But it contradicts "established wisdom", that "work ethic" that was drummed into you and the dominant way things have been done for too long.

[KlaxonCow]

You will be more productive in those later hours than you ever could mentally manage in a day of working straight through.

The brain "clogs up" and slows down, if you try to ram that much hard work into it without a proper break - and "proper break" means actually getting sleep, the body's way of resetting the mind.

[KlaxonCow]

So it is "heresy" to even say this - and true productivity will continue to be pissed away in naive pursuit of simple metrics of "hours worked".

If you have the opportunity to test the theory, then I urge you to do so to see for yourself.

Work hard for 4 hours in the morning. Then take a siesta and get an hour's sleep or so - no rushing, you must relax and put work out of your mind - then come back for another 4 hours later on.

[KlaxonCow]

It is naive thinking - and simply erroneous - to think that "the line of least resistance" is the best path to take.

Human beings are not machines and treating them as if they are - neglecting their psychological and physiological needs - cannot get the best out of them.

Of course, though this has been empirically proved to be the case, this opposes "the Protestant Work Ethic" and centuries of dominance of the naive approach.