Should employees be allowed to use social networks?

I hate to sound like the kill joy, but if I were running a company, I would not want my employees to spend the day networking online. I would want them to get their work done. I do not see how sites like that could be considered a useful tool at work. I wish that you had given some examples. I believe that any of that could be done on break, as long as it does not in any way conflict with work. Or, it should be kept away from the office. Work is not a social club. It is a place where you work to earn your living and if you are bored or need some more excitment, it would be best to find a different position.

When you are hired to do a job that, is what you should be doing during working hours. If you are networking or being on Facebook or any other such site you are not doing the job you are paid for and that is thiet, theft of your employeer's time. After all he didn't hire you to be on facebook or other such sites. I am not an empouyer or an employee now. But when I was working I did the job I was hired to do.

Employees should not be allowed to use social networking sites during their work schedule. The companies did not hire the employee to chat online or use the networking sites. They are paying the employees to get work done and help the company grow and make a lot of money. People can do whatever they want at home. I think it is good that companies are banning social networking sites during work hours.

The business owns the computers, maintains the buildings network, and pays for the internet access; it seems perfectly logical to me that they can tell their employees (for whom they provide the computers in order to do their WORK) what sites they can use. Because, honestly, although facebookand such sites may useful to the individual employees, its use is probably not very beneficial to the company, especially proportional to the time spent on the site. Using those sites can slow down a network, too, so it could also slow down the people actually trying to work. The company I work for doesn't ban any sites, but we do have a "no expectation of privicy" policy that flashes up on the screen each time you sign on. Basically, it says that the company can look into your computer use whenever they feel like it. Sort of an "on you honor, but we're watching you..." type of system.

In my opinion it's just right for companies to prohibit the usage of computers and not only limited to social networking sites. After all the companies are the one who are paying for our salary, office incurring expenses and etc. And good ethics for an employee to abide by the policy of the company he or she is working for. As for the company I work for I don't have any limit on my internet access since my work is based on internet. I don't think that such networking sites can be a useful tool for work. It might be useful if you're looking for a person though. Have a nice day!

OF course they should not be accessing it during business hours at all. It totally disrespects the whole etiquette that should be enforced in a jobs environment.