Many companies banning FB, Twitter

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Ouch! That's a good information, friend. They should strict on their workers not to do social networks while at work. Because there's a time for that...They can do social network online at night...

If it becomes a problem, absolutely. Though employees might do it from their phone...

Yes, they should. We are not paying workers to have fun. And anyway, it's more-thrilling to wonder if your friends will have responded by the time you get back home than -to have instant access to that knowledge all the time. And if people are getting "stressed-out" during work because of anxiety over not knowing what everybody is doing every second of every day ... well, blame that on the instant-gratification expectancy media-and-entertainment have built up in today's common people.

Social networking during work hours...is in effect stealing from the company that pays you for your time and experience. When at work your time is rented by the company that hires you, it is your responsibility and your debt to give the service which they are paying you for. The Social Network will still be available during your off hours, on weekends. The posts do not simply disappear into nothingness, nor do messages to individuals. Most people want a fair wage for a days labor, but isn't also fair to give a fair days labor for the wage?

I don't know how people like social networks,because are a waste of time.Why you need to talk and see a person using a social network? If you want to see it , use real life meeting.The US companies made a great solusion for those people who like to talk on social networks.

I agree with companies. When myself site on laptop doing social network site, I not able to do anything else which makes me lazy as well as less productive. If employees want to use facebook or twitter they can use it when they are at home or at cyber cafe.

Unless there is a legitimate work requirement emoloyees should never access personal social networking sites in work time. Why should employers permit their staff to steal from them in such a way? You work and in return get paid. Doing anything other than work in that time is theft. Some employers permit staff to access personal sites during rest breaks and that is fine. Otherwise I am with the 54% that do not.

And as well they should!!! Work time is work time and play time is play time. All personal things they have to do should be banned. At work they should be working. All personal internet things should be done at home.

I think what they are doing is right. Just because FB and Twitter have become an important part of our lives doesnt mean it has to be. And when you are at work you shouldnt be on facebook or twitter because then you are not working. And unless FB is going to pay your bills for you when you lose your job I suggest that people stay off of it. When I was working I never used facebook whil i was at work. I would use it on my lunch break or on oneof my 15 minute breaks.

I think it is right because how could the employee do their job if they are being addicted of this social networking sites? Aside from that sometimes it would affect the privacy matters within the company. Of course there are people who are ranting about their office matters on social networking sites. There are other companies that doesn't need any internet connection such as animation studios.

I fall on the side of the companies, mostly. Most do not take such action unless work is actually being affected, so it's not like they are just being mean. As customers of those companies, we do not want our service affected by someone's inability to wait a few hours to check their Facebook and as stockholders we want to see no silly reasons for diminished productivity. Many companies have even disallowed cell phones on a worker's person during shift. For emergency reasons I find this a little more disturbing, but as long as an employer is willing to forward emrgency calls, it really doesn't hurt the employee.

My previous employer bans facebook and even blocked it. I agree to their reason because most of the employees doesn't finish their work on time (ok, including me) and sometimes they tend to take the overtime period just to earn more and at the same time be online on social networking sites. Unfortunately, the IT department can't fully block it because there are always proxy sites where you can access these social networking sites.

I guess to find out, you would have to put yourself in the employers position. How would you feel if your employees were social networking or playing games on FB instead of doing work for you? For me, I think it is the right thing to do. The purpose of having a job is to work and not work and play.

Hi. dream_ozn. I think that companies should ban their employees from using social networking sites during working hours. It is very unacceptable to be on Facebook while they are working. Work is work. Social time is social time only. It may make many employees upset, but that is just how it is going to be. Employees should take their jobs more seriously than they do anyway.

If I owned a company and had several employees working for me, I wouldn't be too happy if they spent time on Facebook, Twitter etc. when they should be doing their job, as that would then mean I'd be paying them to play around rather than to work and be productive. However, I wouldn't ban it - I'd allow staff to use the sites during their own time, such as their lunch-breaks, but anybody caught using the sites during working hours would be warned, and if they continued, would receive disciplinary action that could result in them being fired because if they are sitting playing around on Facebook & Twitter all day, then their concentration isn't on doing a good job and providing a good service - nor would I want to pay them for doing nothing.

I just came from a company that did. Except for Linkedin, I think they banned all social networking sites. But that didn't stop people from constantly being on FB, as most of my officemates then had smartphones that they could regularly visit. So, instead of being in front of a monitor and typing, they just have their heads down in their workplace, and typing on their phones. Which tells me that, it doesn't really help increase (or maintain) productivity. I'm in a new job now, and I could FB as much as I want.

I don't think so. If staffs are responsibility people, they still work well if they use social network in the working time. But if they don't want to work, banning social network doesn't have effects.

I would say that it would helpful for a company to disallow the employees from opening these accounts during working hours. They can however view these sites during breaks. It can eat an ample of time when an employee would allot a certain time browsing these sites.

I do agree with the companies. I've watched several people at my company working on FB and Twitter during business hours and they are not on a break either. How can you make your production numbers and chat on FB or be twittering at the same time. They should be happy they still have a job in my opinion. Why should companies pay an employee to do nothing? I would have banned them both a long time ago. Best Wishes!