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Will You Quit Your Job for Facebook?

Started by Nick O'Neill · 3 months ago

A recent study by Vnunet found that “nearly a third of younger employees would consider quitting their job if Facebook was banned in the workplace.” The lesson? Don’t expect your employees to be working otherwise they will quit on you. While you are at it, ... Continue reading »

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    5 months ago

    Woah, woah... the only way you can be of Gen y is if you are less than 27 (1980 and forward)... otherwise you are Gen X like me..
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  • Leon Westbrook

    5 months ago

    My job finally banned facebook and I think its for the better.

    Not only its not possible for rumours and other things to spread in the office, i'm a bit more productive.

    Still it is frustrating to organize or find out about events until after work.
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  • MatthewRudy

    5 months ago

    I read this,
    and thought you meant "will you quit your job to go and work for facebook?"

    Guess I would.
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  • Mark Waks

    5 months ago

    It's not just Gen-Y -- I'm 43, and probably wouldn't be willing to work somewhere that didn't have broad Internet access.

    To be fair, Facebook is a ways down my personal priority list: IM and LJ matter more to me. But the basic principle is that it's a dumb policy. A smart company knows that employees need to chill and communicate a bit during the workday. If that interferes with getting their jobs done then they should be canned, but so long as it's kept within reasonable bounds it helps people have lives, and not resent work so much.

    Internet restrictions really only make sense if you view your employees as dumb identikit drones. But if that's your attitude, I don't want to be anywhere *near* your company...
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  • Identikit Drone #3245

    5 months ago

    Limiting my access to the web is like limiting my access to the phone for personal calls. We all know that personal calls should be kept to a minimum. So should Internet use. If you have an employee who is constantly on the phone talking to their friends etc... how do you handle that? Put restrictions on the phones as to the numbers they can dial out and block unrecognized incoming calls? Take away their cell phone? I don't think so. You let the employee know that their behavior is unacceptable and ask them to limit their own access. If it continues, you let them go. Just like you would if they were making an unacceptable amount of personal phone calls.

    Besides, there are ways to circumvent the blocks and restrictions.
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  • Yashvin

    5 months ago

    lol, facebook is banned at my place of work, just like hi5, rapidshare etc...

    To note : I work in a software development company in mauritius and we are in the web 2.0 era!

    wat a paradox!
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  • Bart

    5 months ago

    There is always room for distraction. If they block Facebook or whatever other site you'll find another thing to waste your time with. So blocking sites doesn't make any sense.
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  • John Kurt

    5 months ago

    If you are quitting a job and they require an exit interview, shouldn't you pretty much say nothing?
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  • Komail Mithani

    5 months ago

    Gen Y doesn't want constraints put on them and when you ban a social utility that engages your employees to interact with one another people begin to become very uneasy. I would hate to work in an environment where my company told me what websites I could view or not. Obviously, some websites aren't meant for the office, but don't control my Internet usage. Gen Y has grown up on Web 2.0 and it is something that companies must adapt to in order to be successful.
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