Study Shows Social Networking At Work Is Good 94
Ostracus writes "Companies should not dismiss staff who use social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo at work as merely time-wasters, a Demos study suggests.
Attempts to control employees' use of such software could damage firms in the long run by limiting the way staff communicate, the think tank said."
Alfresco/Sharepoint (Score:2, Informative)
I would suggest using internal tools like Alfresco, Sharepoint, Jabber, Wiki, whatever to increase social interaction within the company without the need for sites like Facebook.
Multitasking reduces productivity (Score:2, Informative)
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/08/05/multitasking.focus/ [cnn.com]
http://www.shmula.com/375/multi-tasking-leads-to-lower-productivity [shmula.com]
On Call (Score:3, Informative)
I get paid salary and part of that is being on call. So the way I see it my downtime can be on call too. If they expect me to wake up and fix a server at 2:00am then they can just suck it up if I read /. while I'm also in the office. If I'm expected to work at home then they should expect some downtime at work. They can't schedule emergencies? I can't schedule the articles I'll be interested in on slashdot.
Luckily I work at place that understands that productivity and "work" aren't the same thing