Comments on: Do you have a policy regarding Facebook and MySpace?

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:29:41 +0000

We had our IT person block both websites because employees were spending too many working hours “playing” on them. We had so much personal website use that we blocked internet service to the pc’s and now have one designated pc in the office that allows employees to use during their break times or lunch hours. They still have e-mail capabilities, but those are limited to business only. This is incorporated in our “communications” policy.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:28:44 +0000

Our IT Manager has blocked both sites because of abuse by employees. However, most employees have either have the I-phone, Blackberries or some other sort of PDA with internet access. They just use those for the two sites instead. Now, it’s not abuse of the company epuipment, it’s abuse of company time. Double edge sword to me.

By: Maria Mc

Maria Mc — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:54:28 +0000

The question is vague. We included a statement in our Internet policy regarding usage of these websites (as well as AOL, MSN, etc.) for instant messaging, which is prohibited on work time. Policy also states employees are prohibited from placing company materials, copyrighted or internal correspondence, on these websites without written permission.

By: Tonya Schubert

Tonya Schubert — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:04:33 +0000

I have actually attended two webinars on this very subject (Web 2.0). Facebook is a lot like many other communities that we all use professionally. I think it’s important to embrace these technologies and find ways to harness them to help our employees and our businesses. We can’t fight them, because they exist and people use them, so why not use something that is familiar and already used/liked my many of our employees to help us do business. There was a great radio show feed on the internet last week where the VP of HR Technology of Capital One, spoke about how they embraced instant messaging to increase the communicaiton and speed of that communication through their Intranet. He agreed we can’t fight the technology, we have to embrace it and make it work for our businesses and our people.

By: ?

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:14:43 +0000

This is a very vague question. Is it intended to find out how many companies ban access to these sites or if companies monitor their employees’ sites?

By: Fred Baragona

Fred Baragona — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:17:27 +0000

We HAVE considered a policy and decided Not to include a policy in our manual on this subject.