Comments on: One in Two U.K. Companies Block Social Networking Web Sites

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By: Doug Cornelius

Doug Cornelius — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:45:00 +0000

Blocking is not an effective policy. The productivity drain due to web 2.0 sites is not something that I dismiss out of hand. Businesses have some legitimate concerns.

I can just as easily interact with Facebook on my smartphone as I can on my computer. So blocking just transfers the productivity issues from the work computer to my phone.

If you allow access, you can monitor usage. If someone is spending hours a day on Facebook, then you know you have a problem.

Besides the productivity issue, there is also the issues of the employee doing something bad that will affect their employer. Blocking does nothing to address those issues. The flight attendants who bad-mouthed passengers did do so through a work computer. They did it on their own time, on their own computer/phone.

If you are going to block access, you need to do so in connection with other policies and education of your employees.

By: DLanphear

DLanphear — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:26:39 +0000

Do you really want call center employees and the like on facebook all day instead of actually listening to the customers? Blocking may make sense for many “lower tier” workers while keeping it available to industry professionals as a means of keeping up with the industry. Social Media policy shouldn’t be a “one-size-fits-all” mentality.

By: ortlieb

ortlieb — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:26:53 +0000

I think that it is right to block it at work. We are at wort to work and not to socialize. At my office they wasn’t blocked till the beginnig of this year. It was a inferno. The people didn’t work properly. They were the whole time in a social web site chatting…