Study Shows Social Networking At Work Is Good

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."

Comments

Alfresco/Sharepoint

[Enderandrew]

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

[GuloGulo]

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/08/05/multitasking.focus/
http://www.shmula.com/375/multi-tasking-leads-to-lower-productivity

On Call

[schlick]

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