Readers Answer: Do you access social networking sites in the office?
Last week, I asked readers the following question: “Do you access social networking sites in the office?“ Below are their responses:
PYW reader Gautch says that he’s working with a team to set up an internal social network for their company. “Our testing ground is our own social network. So i guess i have to say, yes I visit social networks at work.” He adds, “On a side note, in our department, we are about to phase out email because the SN is working so well. But I highly doubt we could phase it out company wide.”
Miguel seems to have a contrarian view, especially when it comes to Facebook. He wrote, “In fact, I delete my Facebook account. I in fact think that LinkedIn could end up being more useful than Facebook. Facebook is fun, but it seems like there’s a lot of potential for Linked In to be used for business networking.”
But one of the reasons why employees don’t access social networks at work is because they are blocked, as gs1192 points out. “Absolutely not – although mostly because they are blocked by my companies firewall and blocking software.”
What do you have to say? Do you think it’s okay to access social networks in the office? Do you think companies are being too harsh by blocking them?
