More than 200 SmartBrief on Workforce readers weighed in on last week’s SmartPulse question: How does your organization regard online social networking?
- We don’t officially sanction social networking on the job, but we don’t really care as long as people are getting their jobs done — 71 votes, 34.8%
- My organization bans it, blocking access to IM and sites such as Facebook — 51 votes, 25%
- Social media is integral to our business model — 32 votes, 15.7%
- We encourage our staff to use social nets to build their professional networks — 31 votes, 15.2%
- We discourage it. It’s too much of a time waster and a legal risk — 19 votes, 9.3%
“Social networking may have played a key role in the recent U.S. presidential campaigns, but the technology isn’t completely welcome in today’s workplaces. A quarter of respondents’ companies ban common social networking tools. But there are signs that use of the technology is catching on in some organizations: More than 30 percent said that their employer encourages them to use social media or that their business model depends on it.” — Mary Ellen Slayter, senior editor, SmartBrief on Workforce.
