http://thewayoftheweb.net/2009/07/johnston-press-manage-a-facebook-facepalm-moment/ Digital Content, Marketing and Disruptive Technology Consultancy Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:14:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thewayoftheweb.net/2009/07/johnston-press-manage-a-facebook-facepalm-moment/#comment-5144 Angus Farquhar Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:56:19 +0000 http://thewayoftheweb.net/?p=1057#comment-5144 Totally agree with you on this one Dan. I know our previous employer came very close to making the same decision, reasoning that it would save them a fortune in bandwidth and make people work more.<br>I can understand the impetus to save money but, as you said, cutting off this kind of thing is ultimately going to cut of the company from forward thinking in a digital age and as a result make them less money, surely.<br>On the issue of people wasting time of Facebook, I firmly believe that this should be an issue between managers and staff. Not a corporate decision at all. If staff members can get all their work done and properly and still have time to go on Facebook then good on them, it's up to their managers to monitor their work output as they should be doing all the time. If employees are able to waste so much time online then maybe they either don't have enough work to do or they're bad at their job. Either way it's their line managers problem to sort out.<br>Letting people use the internet will make it become part of their everyday conciousness and seems the most likely way to start to get heel-draggers to start thinking digital when planning for the future. Totally agree with you on this one Dan. I know our previous employer came very close to making the same decision, reasoning that it would save them a fortune in bandwidth and make people work more.
I can understand the impetus to save money but, as you said, cutting off this kind of thing is ultimately going to cut of the company from forward thinking in a digital age and as a result make them less money, surely.
On the issue of people wasting time of Facebook, I firmly believe that this should be an issue between managers and staff. Not a corporate decision at all. If staff members can get all their work done and properly and still have time to go on Facebook then good on them, it's up to their managers to monitor their work output as they should be doing all the time. If employees are able to waste so much time online then maybe they either don't have enough work to do or they're bad at their job. Either way it's their line managers problem to sort out.
Letting people use the internet will make it become part of their everyday conciousness and seems the most likely way to start to get heel-draggers to start thinking digital when planning for the future.

]]> http://thewayoftheweb.net/2009/07/johnston-press-manage-a-facebook-facepalm-moment/#comment-4946 Angus Farquhar Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:56:19 +0000 http://thewayoftheweb.net/?p=1057#comment-4946 Totally agree with you on this one Dan. I know our previous employer came very close to making the same decision, reasoning that it would save them a fortune in bandwidth and make people work more.<br>I can understand the impetus to save money but, as you said, cutting off this kind of thing is ultimately going to cut of the company from forward thinking in a digital age and as a result make them less money, surely.<br>On the issue of people wasting time of Facebook, I firmly believe that this should be an issue between managers and staff. Not a corporate decision at all. If staff members can get all their work done and properly and still have time to go on Facebook then good on them, it's up to their managers to monitor their work output as they should be doing all the time. If employees are able to waste so much time online then maybe they either don't have enough work to do or they're bad at their job. Either way it's their line managers problem to sort out.<br>Letting people use the internet will make it become part of their everyday conciousness and seems the most likely way to start to get heel-draggers to start thinking digital when planning for the future. Totally agree with you on this one Dan. I know our previous employer came very close to making the same decision, reasoning that it would save them a fortune in bandwidth and make people work more.
I can understand the impetus to save money but, as you said, cutting off this kind of thing is ultimately going to cut of the company from forward thinking in a digital age and as a result make them less money, surely.
On the issue of people wasting time of Facebook, I firmly believe that this should be an issue between managers and staff. Not a corporate decision at all. If staff members can get all their work done and properly and still have time to go on Facebook then good on them, it's up to their managers to monitor their work output as they should be doing all the time. If employees are able to waste so much time online then maybe they either don't have enough work to do or they're bad at their job. Either way it's their line managers problem to sort out.
Letting people use the internet will make it become part of their everyday conciousness and seems the most likely way to start to get heel-draggers to start thinking digital when planning for the future.

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