Escalating Ban-Facebook Hype

Here’s the angle in the latest survey:

[…] Mike Huss, director of employment law at Peninsula called on all firms to block access to sites such as Facebook. He asked: “Why should employers allow their workers to waste two hours a day on Facebook when they are being paid to do a job?” He said that loss of productivity was proving a “major headache” for firms. “The figures that we have calculated are minimums and it’s a problem that I foresee will escalate,” he said.

Good grief.

As you might expect, there is a Ethan Kaplan has this:

[…] if Facebook cost your business “dear,” then you shouldn’t really be in business. If you can’t figure out how to leverage any social network for your own business, and the tendencies of your employees to enjoy them, then time to rethink your strategies.

Hmm, while I like a lot what Ethan says, the reality for most organizations will be somewhere in between the two extremes.

As I’ve said before, Unions call for workplace guidelines for Facebook

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