Comments on: With Fewer Staff Will Companies Respond by Blocking Access to Social Media in the Workplace http://justanother24hours.com/social-media/with-fewer-staff-will-companies-respond-by-blocking-access-to-social-media-in-the-workplace/ By Daniel Young Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:21:11 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Marie Najjar http://justanother24hours.com/social-media/with-fewer-staff-will-companies-respond-by-blocking-access-to-social-media-in-the-workplace/comment-page-1/#comment-4805 Marie Najjar Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:37:47 +0000 http://justanother24hours.com/?p=281#comment-4805 I couldn't agree more. What I would add (in relation to the Wikinomics stats) is that if Gen Ys were feeling motivated and challenged - they'd spend less time on non work related activities. To me, these results aren't just indicative of Gen Y's heavy use of technology - it could also indicate that they're not engaged by the business and are probably bored. As you mention above, smart companies will look at how they can use new technology to improve productivity - you've written about Yammer before which is a great example of this. For those who have a young workforce, technology such as this is a great idea because to communicate effectively with employees you need to use their preferred communication method. For Gen Y, Web 2.0. could be a winner! As for those organisation's that take the blocking route - Great idea. And while they're at it, why not demand mobile phones be switched off at work. Track personal phone calls on land lines - no even better - record them. Map employee movements (a ploy I've personally been involved in - very humorous actually) or better still make office detention anklets compulsory. I couldn’t agree more. What I would add (in relation to the Wikinomics stats) is that if Gen Ys were feeling motivated and challenged – they’d spend less time on non work related activities. To me, these results aren’t just indicative of Gen Y’s heavy use of technology – it could also indicate that they’re not engaged by the business and are probably bored.

As you mention above, smart companies will look at how they can use new technology to improve productivity – you’ve written about Yammer before which is a great example of this.

For those who have a young workforce, technology such as this is a great idea because to communicate effectively with employees you need to use their preferred communication method. For Gen Y, Web 2.0. could be a winner!

As for those organisation’s that take the blocking route – Great idea. And while they’re at it, why not demand mobile phones be switched off at work. Track personal phone calls on land lines – no even better – record them. Map employee movements (a ploy I’ve personally been involved in – very humorous actually) or better still make office detention anklets compulsory.

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